Kellie Robertson

Nature Speaks

Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kellie Robertson is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 852g
• ISBN-13: 9780812248654
• ISBN-10: 0812248651
• Artikelnr.: 46597823

Autorenporträt

Kellie Robertson is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Citations and Abbreviations
Introduction: Medieval Poetry and Natural Philosophy
PART I. FRAMING MEDIEVAL NATURE
Chapter 1. Figuring Physis
Chapter 2. Aristotle's Nature and Its Discontents
PART II. ALLEGORIZING NATURE IN THE VERNACULAR
Chapter 3. Jean de Meun and the Rule of Necessity
Chapter 4. Allegory Without Nature: Guillaume de Deguileville's Pèlerinage
de vie humaine
PART III. LOVE AND TH ELIMITS OF NATURAL REASON
Chapter 5. Chaucer's Natures
Chapter 6. "Kyndely Reson" on Trial: Translating Nature After Chaucer
Epilogue: Nature's Silence: Humanism, Posthumanism, and the Legacy of
Medieval Nature
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments