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020			_a9781107660175
082			_a840.9001 GRE-V
100			_aGreene, Virginie
245			_aLogical fictions in medieval literature and philosophy / _cVirginie Greene
260			_aUnited Kingdom _bCambridge University Press _c2014
300			_a293 p.
365			_aGBP _b19.99.
500			_aIn 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.
650			_aLogic in literature
650			_aPhilosophy, Medieval
650			_aLiterature--Philosophy
650			_aDialectic in literature
650			_aLatin literature
650			_aFrench literature