LEADER 03163nam 22005535 450 001 9910970726603321 005 20230102051003.0 010 $a9781487514211 010 $a1487514212 010 $a9781487514204 010 $a1487514204 024 7 $a10.3138/9781487514204 035 $a(CKB)3790000000538138 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5171112 035 $a(DE-B1597)493867 035 $a(OCoLC)1078914678 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781487514204 035 $a(OCoLC)1014123244 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_107592 035 $a(Perlego)972401 035 $a(EXLCZ)993790000000538138 100 $a20190516d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aMedieval Romance $eThe Aesthetics of Possibility /$fJames Knapp, Peggy Knapp 210 1$aToronto : $cUniversity of Toronto Press, $d[2018] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (251 pages) 311 08$a9781487501914 311 08$a1487501919 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $gIntroduction --$g1$tThe speculative fiction of Marie de France --$g2$tPerception and possible worlds in Sir Orfeo --$g3$tCapturing beauty: Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde --$g4$tMelusine's Aventure among the humans --$g5$tRomance by other means: the Canterbury Tales --$g6$tThe immense subtlety of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 330 $a"Widely heard and read throughout the middle ages, romance literature has persisted for centuries and has lately re-emerged in the form of speculative fiction, inviting readers to step out of the actual world and experience the intriguing pleasure of possibility. Medieval Romance is the first study to focus on the deep philosophical underpinnings of the genre's fictional worlds. James F. Knapp and Peggy A. Knapp uniquely utilize Leibniz's "possible worlds" theory, Kant's aesthetic reflections, and Gadamer's writings on the apprehension of language over time, to bring the romance genre into critical dialogue with fundamental questions of philosophical aesthetics, modal logic, and the hermeneutics of literary transmission. The authors' compelling and illuminating analysis of six instances of medieval secular writing, including that of Marie de France, the Gawain-poet, and Chaucer demonstrates how the extravagantly imagined worlds of romance invite reflection about the nature of the real. These stories, which have delighted readers for hundreds of years, do so because the impossible fictions of one era prefigure desired realities for later generations."--$cProvided by publisher 606 $aRomances, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aRomances, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a821.109 700 $aKnapp$b James , $01803629 702 $aKnapp$b Peggy, 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910970726603321 996 $aMedieval Romance$94351264 997 $aUNINA