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Chaucer's Neoplatonism : Varieties of Love, Friendship, and Community.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Medieval Literature SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (211 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498561945
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Chaucer's NeoplatonismDDC classification:
  • 821/.1
LOC classification:
  • PR1924 .H555 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Chaucer's Neoplatonism: Varieties of Love, Friendship and Community -- Two: Varieties of Supposition and the Truth Value of Story -- 3 Varieties of Friendship: Pandarus, Troilus and Noble Friendship -- 4 Avuncular Form and Pandarus's Several Embassies -- 5 Varieties of Joy in Troilus and Criseyde -- 6 Varieties of Invited "Compaignye" in the Pilgrimage to Canterbury -- Conclusion: Chaucer's Neoplatonic Art -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: Chaucer's Neoplatonism covers his major works and the ways in which he has absorbed a Boethian, essentially rational Neoplatonism. By means of that philosophy he poetically engages issues of truth, falsehood, love, friendship, joy, and community. His widely recognized, capacious humanism arises from that engagement.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Chaucer's Neoplatonism: Varieties of Love, Friendship and Community -- Two: Varieties of Supposition and the Truth Value of Story -- 3 Varieties of Friendship: Pandarus, Troilus and Noble Friendship -- 4 Avuncular Form and Pandarus's Several Embassies -- 5 Varieties of Joy in Troilus and Criseyde -- 6 Varieties of Invited "Compaignye" in the Pilgrimage to Canterbury -- Conclusion: Chaucer's Neoplatonic Art -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author.

Chaucer's Neoplatonism covers his major works and the ways in which he has absorbed a Boethian, essentially rational Neoplatonism. By means of that philosophy he poetically engages issues of truth, falsehood, love, friendship, joy, and community. His widely recognized, capacious humanism arises from that engagement.

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