Medieval Romance: The Aesthetics of Possibility.
- Author / Editor
- Knapp, James F., and Peggy A. Knapp.
Medieval Romance: The Aesthetics of Possibility.
- Published
- Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.
- Physical Description
- 263 pp.
- Description
- Analyzes the aesthetics of medieval romance in light of the philosophies of G. W. Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, and Hans-Georg Gadamer, exploring and explaining the "pleasurable seriousness" (for modern and medieval audiences) of the "Lais" of Marie de France, Jean d'Arras's "Melusine," "Sir Orfeo," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," TC, and several of the CT. Reads Troilus's final perspective in TC as from an "epistemically possible world," backdrop to his experiences of Criseyde as a woman who seems to come "from a different world" (as Melusine does). FranT presents the beauty of romance, WBT subjects the genre to serio-comic investigation, ClT threatens it with allegory, and CYT undermines its transformative possibilities.
- Contributor
- Knapp, Peggy A.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Troilus and Criseyde
Franklin and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Clerk and His Tale
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale