Chaucer's Aesthetic Resources: Nature, Longing, and Economies of Form.

Author / Editor
Jahner, Jennifer.

Title
Chaucer's Aesthetic Resources: Nature, Longing, and Economies of Form.

Published
In Thomas A. Prendergast and Jessica Rosenfeld, eds. Chaucer and the Subversion of Form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 38-60.

Description
Analyzes the epistemology of form as theorized by Boethius, Chaucer, and Kant, particularly in relation to the apprehension of natural beauty. Reads Form Age and For, in the manuscript setting of Cambridge University Library, MS Ii.III.21, as subversive "poetic commentary" on Book II of Boece that interrogates its formal project.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and the Subversion of Form.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Boece
The Former Age
Fortune