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Medieval Romance - The Aesthetics of Possibility (Hardcover)
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Medieval Romance - The Aesthetics of Possibility (Hardcover)
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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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