CHAUCER MEDIEVAL REALISM LITERATURE POETRY SEMIOLOGY METAPHYSICS REVIEW COPY 1ST

Description: Chaucerian Realism Chaucer Studies - Volume 20by Robert Myles Published by D.S. Brewer, 1994. First Edition, review copy with typewritten review and copy of review printed in SPECULUM (1996) by Prof. Russell E. Peck, from his library. Good hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. Tight binding, solid spine, some pencil notes to text. 8vo, index, 153 pages.Myles challenges the convention of the `medieval mind' and perceives new semantic sophistication in Chaucer's language.What is the difference between saying something and meaning it, and saying something and not meaning it? A modern question. A Chaucerian question. Through his analysis of intentionality and the metaphysics of speech, Robert Myles shows why Chaucer's appreciation of the functioning of language and thought could be `modern'. Through his analysis of Chaucer's works, particularly the Friar's Tale, Myles demonstrates that Chaucer's understanding of these is modern and the myth of the medieval mind as other than our own is exploded. The medieval belief in intentionality, the object-directedness of all beings, allowed appreciationof a fact: thought and language areintentional. On a practical level Chaucer deliberately exploits three-level semantics (signs are simultaneously mind-drected and world-directed) to create `realistic' fiction in the modernliterary sense of the term. Myles also argues that Chaucer is a realist in the philosophical sense, a view which goes counter to the current of much recent criticism. This book will not only be a challenging addition to medievaland Chaucerian studies, but has interesting implications for the historical study of intentionality, semiotics and epistemology.From the library of Russell A. Peck, a legendary & beloved English teacher who taught longer than any professor in the history of the University of Rochester.The John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Literature, Peck was internationally known as an authority on Middle English literature, especially works by Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and Malory. Peck edited the seminal three volume edition of John Gower’s The Confessio Amantis and explicated it in his book Kingship and Common Profit. Peck had broad academic interests and publications ranging from Arthurian romance, folklore, and fairy tales, to film, cognitive theory and pedagogy. Peck’s research was supported and honored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Medieval Academy of America. Loc: E16StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackCHAUCER MEDIEVAL REALISM LITERATURE POETRY SEMIOLOGY METAPHYSICS REVIEW COPY 1ST Chaucerian Realism Chaucer Studies - Volume 20by Robert Myles Published by D.S. Brewer, 1994. First Edition, review copy with typewritten review and copy of review printed in SPECULUM (1996) by Prof. Russell E. Peck, from his library. Good hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. Tight binding, solid spine, some pencil notes to text. 8vo, index, 153 pages.Myles challenges the convention of the `medieval mind' and perceives new semantic sophistication in Chaucer's language.What is the difference between saying something and meaning it, and saying something and not meaning it? A modern question. A Chaucerian question. Through his analysis of intentionality and the metaphysics of speech, Robert Myles shows why Chaucer's appreciation of the functioning of language and thought could be `modern'. Through his analysis of Chaucer's works, particularly the Friar's Tale, Myles demonstrates that Chaucer's understanding of these is modern and the myth of the medieval mind as other than our own is exploded. The medieval belief in intentionality, the object-directedness of all beings, allowed appreciationof a fact: thought and language areintentional. On a practical level Chaucer deliberately exploits three-level semantics (signs are simultaneously mind-drected and world-directed) to create `realistic' fiction in the modernliterary sense of the term. Myles also argues that Chaucer is a realist in the philosophical sense, a view which goes counter to the current of much recent criticism. This book will not only be a challenging addition to medievaland Chaucerian studies, but has interesting implications for the historical study of intentionality, semiotics and epistemology.From the library of Russell A. Peck, a legendary & beloved English teacher who taught longer than any professor in the history of the University of Rochester.The John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Literature, Peck was internationally known as an authority on Middle English literature, especially works by Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and Malory. Peck edited the seminal three volume edition of John Gower’s The Confessio Amantis and explicated it in his book Kingship and Common Profit. Peck had broad academic interests and publications ranging from Arthurian romance, folklore, and fairy tales, to film, cognitive theory and pedagogy. Peck’s research was supported and honored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Medieval Academy of America. Loc: E16

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