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02595aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 E02BE96C370411E887D7D95B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180403010230 008 170407t20172017onc b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781487501914 020 $a 1487501919 035 $a (OCoLC)980732084 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d NLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d CDX $d SILO 050 4 $a PR321 $b .K53 2017 082 04 $a 821/.109 $2 23 100 1 $a Knapp, James F., $e author. 245 10 $a Medieval romance : $b the aesthetics of possibility / $c James F. Knapp and Peggy A. Knapp. 264 1 $a Toronto : $b University of Toronto Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xi, 251 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-228) and index. 520 $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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Romances, English $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English literature $y Middle English, 1100-1500 $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a English literature $x Middle English. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710961 650 7 $a Romances, English. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01099909 648 7 $a 1100-1500 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 700 1 $a Knapp, Peggy Ann, $e author. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210406015229.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20181116060013.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E02BE96C370411E887D7D95B97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search