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By P. Knapp

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Chaucerian Aesthetics examines The Canterbury Tale and Troilus and Criseyde from both medieval and post-Kantian vantage points. These sometimes congruent, sometimes divergent perspectives illuminate both the immediate pleasure of encountering beauty and its haunting promise of intelligibility. Although aesthetic reflection has sometimes seemed out of sync with modern approaches to mind and language, Knapp defends its value in general and demonstrates its importance for the analysis of Chauc...

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Literature Philosophy Literary Criticism Major Branches of Philosophical Study Ancient & Medieval Philosophy European Literature Ancient & Medieval Literature Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art Medieval Philosophy Poetry - Literary Criticism English Literature Medieval European Literature - Literary Criticism General Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art Medieval Philosophy - General & Miscellaneous English Poetry - Medieval - Literary Criticism Medieval Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism Medieval English Literature - Chaucer - Literary Criticism