Ethics and enjoyment in late medieval poetry : love after Aristotle / Jessica Rosenfeld.
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- 9780511992735
- 0511992734
- 9780511990762
- 0511990766
- 9780511686924
- 0511686927
- Aristoteles v384-v322
- Jean de Meung -1305 Roman de la rose
- Aristoteles, 384-322 f.Kr -- influenser
- Poetry, Medieval -- History and criticism
- Pleasure in literature
- Ethics in literature
- Plaisir dans la littérature
- Morale dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Ethics in literature
- Pleasure in literature
- Poetry, Medieval
- Ethik
- Rezeption
- Liebeslyrik
- Europeisk kärlekspoesi -- historia -- medeltiden
- Njutning i litteraturen
- Etik i litteraturen
- 809.1/9353 22
- PN688 .R67 2011eb
- LIT004120
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"Jessica 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"-- Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index.
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.
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