The honest pleasure of reading: the presence of eutrapelia in the prologues of the novels of chivalry
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https://doi.org/10.13136/2284-2667/68Keywords:
Reading, novels of chivalry, eutrapelia, Aristotle, St Thomas AquinasAbstract
Eutrapelia (Aristotle, Nicomachaean Ethics) means moderate pleasure. Initially it addressed activities such as jokes, games and the theatre; by the fourteenth century it was being applied to narrative fiction. It is argued in this article that although the word eutrapelia was of limited circulation, the concept of eutrapelia is reflected in apparently anodine words such as recrearse and pasatiempo which frequently occur in the prologues of the romances of chivalry.
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2017-12-22
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