Jessica Rosenfeld

Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry

Love After Aristotle

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides an essential ethical history of courtly love poetry by tracing its engagement with the late medieval reception of Aristotelian ethics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 379g
• ISBN-13: 9781107696600
• ISBN-10: 1107696607
• Artikelnr.: 40049153

Autorenporträt

Jessica Rosenfeld is Assistant Professor of English at Washington University, St Louis.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: love after Aristotle
1. Enjoyment: a medieval history
2. Narcissus after Aristotle: love and ethics in Le Roman de la Rose
3. Metamorphoses of pleasure in the fourteenth century Dit Amoureux
4. Love's knowledge: fabliau, allegory, and fourteenth-century anti-intellectualism
5. On human happiness: Dante, Chaucer, and the felicity of friendship
Coda: Chaucer's philosophical women.