Chaucer on Love, Knowledge and Sight

ORMAN KLASSEN is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada post-doctorial fellow at the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Minnesota.

List of contents

An eye for truth and beauty - a metaphysical preface to Middle English literature of love and knowledge; a two-fold symbol of knowledge - sight in natural philosophy; the hostility of love and knowledge - sight in medieval love poetry; the hospitality of love and knowledge 1 - the shared language and shared ideas of erotic love and spiritual love; the hospitality of love and knowledge 2 - erotic love and natural philosophy revisted; the interference of self-reflexiveness - the poet and the "parasitisme" of love and knowledge.

Product details

• Authors: Norman Klassen
• Publisher: D. S. Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1995
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 516 g
• Series: Chaucer Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies