{"product_id":"chaucerian-realism-9780859914093","title":"Chaucerian Realism","description":"\u003cb\u003eMyles challenges the convention of the `medieval mind' and perceives new semantic sophistication in Chaucer's language.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNB DSB BLURB ON CERTAIN OCCASIONS  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 \u003ci\u003ecould\u003c\/i\u003e be `modern'.  Through his analysis of Chaucer's works, particularly the \u003ci\u003eFriar's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, Myles demonstrates that Chaucer's understanding of these \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eare\u003c\/i\u003eintentional. 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDR ROBERT MYLES\u003c\/i\u003eis senior lecturer at the English and French Language Centre, McGill University, and a research fellow at the Department of English, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.","brand":"Robert Myles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280431952123,"sku":"9780859914093","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780859914093.jpg?v=1772483203","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/chaucerian-realism-9780859914093","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}