TY - BOOK AU - Hill,John M. TI - Chaucer's Neoplatonism: Varieties of Love, Friendship, and Community T2 - Studies in Medieval Literature Series SN - 9781498561945 AV - PR1924 .H555 2018 U1 - 821/.1 PY - 2017/// CY - Blue Ridge Summit PB - Lexington Books/Fortress Academic KW - Chaucer, Geoffrey,--1400-Criticism and interpretation KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5208140 ER -