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PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101107000114
ISBN-139781107000117
eBay Product ID (ePID)92882471
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
Publication NameEthics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry : Love after Aristotle
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Poetry, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2010
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Philosophy
AuthorJessica Rosenfeld
SeriesCambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight19.1 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2010-038968
Dewey Edition22
Series Volume NumberSeries Number 85
Dewey Decimal809.1/9353
Table Of ContentIntroduction: 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.
SynopsisJessica Rosenfeld provides a history of the ethics of medieval vernacular love poetry by tracing its engagement with the late medieval reception of Aristotle. Beginning with a history of the idea of enjoyment from Plato to Peter Abelard and the troubadours, the book then presents a literary and philosophical history of the medieval ethics of love, centered on the legacy of the Roman de la Rose. The chapters reveal that 'courtly love' was scarcely confined to what is often characterized as an ethic of sacrifice and deferral, but also engaged with Aristotelian ideas about pleasure and earthly happiness. Readings of Machaut, Froissart, Chaucer, Dante, Deguileville and Langland show that poets were often markedly aware of the overlapping ethical languages of philosophy and erotic poetry. The study's conclusion places medieval poetry and philosophy in the context of psychoanalytic ethics, and argues for a re-evaluation of Lacan's ideas about courtly love., This is a study of the love poetry of late medieval Europe, looking in particular at the ways in which the Ethics of Aristotle, newly translated, influenced the ideas and expressions of courtly love.
LC Classification NumberPN688 .R67 2011
