Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages

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Tác giả: Glending Olson

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-13: 978-1501746741

ISBN-13: 978-1501746758

ISBN-13: 978-1501746765

ISBN: b06w-b910

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Thông tin xuất bản: Ithaca Cornell University Press 1986

Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (246 p.)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 345088

This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure-one finding hygienic or therapeutic value in entertainment, and another stressing the psychological and ethical rewards of taking time out from work in order to refresh oneself-Glending Olson reveals that, contrary to much recent opinion, many medieval writers and thinkers accepted delight and enjoyment as valid goals of literature without always demanding moral profit as well. Drawing on a vast amount of primary material, including contemporary medical manuscripts and printed texts, Olson discusses theatrics, humanist literary criticism, prologues to romances and fabliaux, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He offers an extended examination of the framing story of Boccaccio's Decameron. Although intended principally as a contribution to the history of medieval literary theory and criticism, Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages makes use of medical, psychological, and sociological insights that lead to a fuller understanding of late medieval secular culture.
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