Logical Fictions in Medieval Literature and Philosophy Paperback / softback
by Virginie (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Greene
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature series
Paperback / softback
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In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, new ways of storytelling and inventing fictions appeared in the French-speaking areas of Europe.
This new art still influences our global culture of fiction.
Virginie Greene explores the relationship between fiction and the development of neo-Aristotelian logic during this period through a close examination of seminal literary and philosophical texts by major medieval authors, such as Anselm of Canterbury, Abélard, and Chrétien de Troyes.
This study of Old French logical fictions encourages a broader theoretical reflection about fiction as a universal human trait and a defining element of the history of Western philosophy and literature.
Additional close readings of classical Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, and modern analytic philosophy including the work of Bertrand Russell and Rudolf Carnap, demonstrate peculiar traits of Western rationalism and expose its ambivalent relationship to fiction.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:308 pages, 2 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:23/03/2017
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- ISBN:9781107660175
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:308 pages, 2 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:23/03/2017
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- ISBN:9781107660175