03163nam 22005535 450 991097072660332120230102051003.0978148751421114875142129781487514204148751420410.3138/9781487514204(CKB)3790000000538138(MiAaPQ)EBC5171112(DE-B1597)493867(OCoLC)1078914678(DE-B1597)9781487514204(OCoLC)1014123244(MdBmJHUP)musev2_107592(Perlego)972401(EXLCZ)99379000000053813820190516d2018 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierMedieval Romance The Aesthetics of Possibility /James Knapp, Peggy KnappToronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]©20171 online resource (251 pages)9781487501914 1487501919 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction --1The speculative fiction of Marie de France --2Perception and possible worlds in Sir Orfeo --3Capturing beauty: Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde --4Melusine's Aventure among the humans --5Romance by other means: the Canterbury Tales --6The immense subtlety of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."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."--Provided by publisherRomances, EnglishHistory and criticismEnglish literatureMiddle English, 1100-1500History and criticismRomances, EnglishHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.821.109Knapp James , 1803629Knapp Peggy, DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910970726603321Medieval Romance4351264UNINA