Medieval romance : the aesthetics of possibility

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Medieval romance : the aesthetics of possibility

Title remainder

the aesthetics of possibility

Statement of responsibility

James F. Knapp and Peggy A. Knapp

Creator

• Knapp, James F

Contributor

• Knapp, Peggy Ann

Author

• Knapp, Peggy Ann
• Knapp, James F

Subject

• English literature -- Middle English
• English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
• Romances, English
• 1100-1500
• Romances, English -- History and criticism
• 18.05 English literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Widely heard and read throughout the middle ages, romance literature has persisted for centuries and has lately re-emerged in the form of speculative fiction, inviting readers to step out of the actual world and experience the intriguing pleasure of possibility. Medieval Romance is the first study to focus on the deep philosophical underpinnings of the genre's fictional worlds. James F. Knapp and Peggy A. Knapp uniquely utilize Leibniz's "possible worlds" theory, Kant's aesthetic reflections, and Gadamer's writings on the apprehension of language over time, to bring the romance genre into critical dialogue with fundamental questions of philosophical aesthetics, modal logic, and the hermeneutics of literary transmission. The authors' compelling and illuminating analysis of six instances of medieval secular writing, including that of Marie de France, the Gawain-poet, and Chaucer demonstrates how the extravagantly imagined worlds of romance invite reflection about the nature of the real. These stories, which have delighted readers for hundreds of years, do so because the impossible fictions of one era prefigure desired realities for later generations."--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

821/.109

Index

index present

LC call number

PR321

LC item number

.K53 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography