Chaucerian Aesthetics examines The Canterbury Tale and Troilus and Criseyde from both medieval and post-Kantian vantage points. These sometimes congruent, sometimes divergent perspectives illuminate both the immediate pleasure of encountering beauty and its haunting promise of intelligibility. Although aesthetic reflection has sometimes seemed out of sync with modern approaches to mind and language, Knapp defends its value in general and demonstrates its importance for the analysis of Chaucer s narrative art. Focusing on language games, persons, women, humor, and community, this book ponders what makes art beautiful.
- ISBN10 1349603341
- ISBN13 9781349603343
- Publish Date 14 January 2014 (first published 19 September 2008)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 7 July 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave MacMillan
- Edition 2008 ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 242
- Language English