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Chaucer's Neoplatonism
- Varieties of Love, Friendship, and Community
Engelsk Paperback
Chaucer's Neoplatonism
- Varieties of Love, Friendship, and Community
Engelsk Paperback

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Although centrally focused on varieties of friendship and love in Troilus and Criseyde, the discussion in Chaucer’s Neoplatonism includes the dream visions as well as aspects of The Canterbury Tales. It lays out Chaucer’s Boethian-inspired, cognitive approach, drawn mainly from Book V of the Consolatio, to whatever subject he treats. Far from courting skepticism, Chaucer gathers many variants of such matters as love, friendship, and community within a meditative mode that assess better and worse instances. He does so to illuminate a fuller sense of the forms that respectively underlie particular manifestations of love, joy, friendship or community. That process is both cognitive and aesthetic in that beauty and truth appear more fully as one assess both better and worse instances of an idea or of an experience. Chapters on the dream visions establish Chaucer’s reasonable belief in the truth-value of fictions, however grounded on exaggerated and mixed tidings of truth and falsehood. Chapters on Troilus and Criseyde examine relationships between the main characters given the place of noble friendship within an initially promising but then tragic love story. The drama of those relationships become Chaucer’s major claim to fame before the tales of Canterbury, where, for meditative purposes, he gathers various gestures toward community among the dramatically interacting pilgrims, while also exploring the dynamics of reconciliation.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
210
ISBN-13:
9781498561952
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1498561950
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Udg. Dato:
6 feb 2020
Længde:
13mm
Bredde:
230mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
Lexington Books
Oplagsdato:
6 feb 2020
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