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Courtly literature is a surprising index of language’s changing theorization during an important period for developments in Western logic. This dissertation characterizes the changing functions of rhetoric and poesy vis-à-vis the arc of dialectic’s fortunes between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. Romance Logic discusses not only how vernacular romance in the medieval tradition utilized and coincided with the logic of its contemporary moment, but also argues that romance helped shape logic’s transformation through the Middle Ages. Focusing largely on oddities of narrative construction, this project investigates the properties of reasoning that are evident in vernacular verse and rhetorical arrangement over the long period from dialectic’s reign as the principal logic of the early Middle Ages to the emergent new logic in later Scholasticism. Part I, “The Idea of Logic,” deals with the implications of dialectic as the basis of early logic. Chapter 1 discusses the centrality of the Aristotelian syllogism in early medieval thought, while Chapter 2 accounts for rhetoric’s accommodation of aspects of signification that escaped dialectic. In Part II, “Logic and the Enchanting World,”

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Author

Wesley Chihyung Yu

Publisher

Princeton University

Published

2009

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction