The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales

The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales is carefully crafted, and demonstrates an astonishing level of nuance across a diverse body of narratives. Manish Sharma communicates a complex problematic in simple terms and elucidates the astonishing degree to which Chaucer deals so consistently in paradoxes. This book is smart, original, and powerfully intelligent.

Authoritative, magisterial, and refreshingly original, Manish Sharma's The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales is destined to be recognized as one of the most important studies in its field. Energized by theoretical re-readings of late medieval philosophical sophisms and paradoxes, Sharma's book demonstrates how signature aspects of Chaucer's craft are sophisticated manoeuvres that are logical and meta-poetical in equal measure. This is a book that should be required reading in every graduate course on medieval literature and medieval literary criticism.

This book represents an essential contribution to the study of The Canterbury Tales. Its stance toward the poem is exemplary, its general implications substantial, its local interventions salutary. This is the way to read Chaucer.