Renaissance World-Alientaion
- Author / Editor
- Howard, Donald.
Renaissance World-Alientaion
- Published
- Robert S. Kinsman, ed. The Darker Vision of the Renaissance: Beyond the Fields of Reason (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974), pp. 47-76.
- Description
- Proposes that "purposeful" alienation that was characteristic of humanist thinking between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries: contempt for the world that belies an underlying fascination with it. Assesses the presence of the sentiment in several literary and philosophical works, including "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and the ending of TC.
- Contributor
- Kinsman, Robert S., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Darker Vision of the Renaissance: Beyond the Fields of Reason.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde