Chaucer on love, knowledge, and sight /

In this study, Norman Klassen shows how Chaucer explores the complexity of the relationship between love and knowledge through recourse to the motif of sight. The convention of love at first sight involves love, knowledge, and sight, but insists that the claims of love and the realm of the rational...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Klassen, Norman, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer ; Boydell & Brewer, ©1995.
Colección:Chaucer studies ; 21.
Temas:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Philosophy.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400.
Chaucer, Geoffrey > 1343-1400
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
Philosophy, Medieval, in literature.
Vision in literature.
Love in literature.
Théorie de la connaissance dans la littérature.
Philosophie médiévale dans la littérature.
Vision dans la littérature.
Amour dans la littérature.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Philosophy.
Liebe > Motiv
Wissen
Liefde.
Kennistheorie.
Visuele waarneming.
English poetry
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1. An Eye for Truth and Beauty: A Metaphysical Preface to Middle English Literature of Love and Knowledge; 2. A Two-fold Symbol of Knowledge: Sight in Natural Philosophy; 3. The Hostility of Love and Knowledge: Sight in Medieval Love Poetry; 4. The Hospitality of Love and Knowledge I: The Shared Language and Shared Ideas of Erotic Love and Spiritual Love; 5. The Hospitality of Love and Knowledge II: Erotic Love and Natural Philosophy Revisited
  • 6. The Interference of Self-reflexiveness: The Poet and the Parasitisme of Love and KnowledgeCONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

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