TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greene,Virginie Elisabeth
ED  - Cambridge eBooks.
TI  - Logical fictions in medieval literature and philosophy
T2  - Cambridge studies in medieval literature
SN  - 9781107706040 (ebook)
AV  - PQ151 .G74 2014
U1  - 840.9/001 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - French literature
KW  - To 1500
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Latin literature
KW  - Literature
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Philosophy, Medieval
KW  - Logic in literature
KW  - Dialectic in literature
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Abelard's donkey : the nonexistent particular -- The literate animal : naming and reference -- The fox and the unicorn : naming and exisence -- The opponent -- The fool who says no to God -- The man who says no to reason -- Aristotle or the founding son -- Abelard or the fatherless son -- The dialectics of friendship
N2  - 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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