Chaucerian Aesthetics

by Peggy A. Knapp

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230606687
• ISBN13: 9780230606685
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.3"