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Chaucer's Neoplatonism - Varieties of Love, Friendship, and Community (Paperback)
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Chaucer's Neoplatonism - Varieties of Love, Friendship, and Community (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Medieval Literature
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Although centrally focused on varieties of friendship and love in
Troilus and Criseyde, the discussion in Chaucer's Neoplatonism
includes the dream visions as well as aspects of The Canterbury
Tales. It lays out Chaucer's Boethian-inspired, cognitive approach,
drawn mainly from Book V of the Consolatio, to whatever subject he
treats. Far from courting skepticism, Chaucer gathers many variants
of such matters as love, friendship, and community within a
meditative mode that assess better and worse instances. He does so
to illuminate a fuller sense of the forms that respectively
underlie particular manifestations of love, joy, friendship or
community. That process is both cognitive and aesthetic in that
beauty and truth appear more fully as one assess both better and
worse instances of an idea or of an experience. Chapters on the
dream visions establish Chaucer's reasonable belief in the
truth-value of fictions, however grounded on exaggerated and mixed
tidings of truth and falsehood. Chapters on Troilus and Criseyde
examine relationships between the main characters given the place
of noble friendship within an initially promising but then tragic
love story. The drama of those relationships become Chaucer's major
claim to fame before the tales of Canterbury, where, for meditative
purposes, he gathers various gestures toward community among the
dramatically interacting pilgrims, while also exploring the
dynamics of reconciliation.
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