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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 Chaucer's narrative art.
Focusing on language games, persons, women, humor, and community, this book ponders what makes art beautiful.
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Chaucerian,Aesthetics,examines,The,Canterbury,Tale,and,Troilus,and,Criseyde
,from,both,medieval,and,post-Kantian,vantage,points.,These,sometimes,congru
ent,,sometimes,divergent,perspectives,illuminate,both,the,immediate,pleasur
e,of,encountering,beauty,and,its,haunting,promise,of,intelligibility.,Altho
ugh,aesthetic,reflection,has,sometimes,seemed,out,of,sync,with,modern,appro
aches,to,mind,and,language,,Knapp,defends,its,value,in,general,and,demonstrates,its,i
mportance,for,the,analysis,of,Chaucer's,narrative,art.,Focusing,on,language,games,,pers
ons,,women,,humor,,and,community,,this,book,ponders,what,makes,art,beautifu
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Peggy A. Knapp
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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 Chaucer's narrative art.
Focusing on language games, persons, women, humor, and community, this book ponders what makes art beautiful.
Author Bio
Peggy A. Knapp is a Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.
She founded and edited the annual book series Assays: Critical Approaches to Medieval and Renaissance Texts.
She is the author of The Style of John Wyclif's English Sermons, Chaucer and the Social Contest, Time-Bound Words, and many articles on medieval and early modern authors, as well as contemporary writers, critics, and filmmakers.
Praise for Chaucerian Aesthetics
"Knapp's unique skill as a critic and a writer has always been to address both non-specialists and beginning students and at the same time make sophisticated technical arguments that move scholarship in the field forward.
In her latest book, Knapp argues for an empowerment in the engagement with the aesthetic that inescapably dramatizes personal and political struggles, both historically and existentially.
Narrative excitement, verbal beauty, and visual pleasure are neither allegories of entrapment nor timeless, universal ideals, but are both ends and means of transformation.
Knapp demonstrates that medieval aesthetic effects are not static and unchanging, but are part of both poetic and social change."--John M. Ganim, Professor of English, University of California- Riverside; President of the New Chaucer Society; and author of Medievalism and Orientalism
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Knapp seeks to reintegrate aesthetic considerations into Chaucer criticism, through a defense and illustration of interpretation which takes pleasure in the beauty of the text.
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