The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales argues that Geoffrey Chaucer’s magnum opus draws inventively on the resources of late medieval logic to conceive of love as an "insoluble." Philosophers of the fourteenth century expended great effort to solve insolubilia, like the notorious Liar paradox, in order to decide upon their truth or falsity. For Chaucer, however, and in keeping with Christ’s admonition from the Sermon on the Mount, the lover does not judge – does not decide on – the beloved. Through a series of detailed and rigorously "non-judgmental" readings, Manish Sharma provides new insight into each of the prologues and tales and intervenes into scholarly debates about their collective import. In so doing, The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales deploys Chaucer’s understanding of charity to consider the limitations of modern critical approaches to The Canterbury Tales, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and gender theory. In the course of the analysis, Sharma shows not only how love and medieval philosophy together inform Chaucerian composition, but also how Chaucer could serve as a resource for contemporary theoretical reflections on love and ethics.
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The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales proposes a new way to understand the correlation between love and philosophy in Chaucer’s famous collection of stories.
Introduction: Flesh and Word in the General Prologue 1. Judge Not: The Nun’s Priest on Logic, the Franklin on Love2. Lest Ye Be Judged: Fragment 1 and the Law of Unintended Consequences3. Vengeance and Forgiveness in Fragments 2 and 34. Reading Griselda Charitably in Fragment 45. Governance and Rebellion in Fragment 66. Loving the Prioress in Fragment 77. Loving Chaucer: Judgment and Charity in Fragments 8-10 Conclusion
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"Authoritative, magisterial, and refreshingly original, Manish Sharma’s The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales is destined to be recognized as one of the most important studies in its field. Energized by theoretical re-readings of late medieval philosophical sophisms and paradoxes, Sharma’s book demonstrates how signature aspects of Chaucer’s craft are sophisticated manoeuvres that are logical and meta-poetical in equal measure. This is a book that should be required reading in every graduate course on medieval literature and medieval literary criticism."
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9781487509033
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2022-07-14
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University of Toronto Press
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720 gr
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231 mm
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157 mm
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33 mm
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U, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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