Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages : Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve
Eleanor. Johnson
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt | Chicago : University of Chicago Press , cop. 2013
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Omfang | 1 online resource (265 p.)
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Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Formalism and Ethics: The Practice of Literary Theory; 1. Formal Experiments with Ethical Writing: Prosimetrum and Protrepsis; 2. Sensible Prose and a Sense of Meter: Chaucer's Aesthetic Sentence in the Boece and Troilus and Criseyde; 3. The Consolation of Tragedy: Protrepsis in the Troilus; 4. Prosimetrum and the Canterbury Philosophy of Literature; 5. Political Protrepsis: Usk and Gower; 6. Hoccleve and the Convention of Mixed-Form Protrepsis; Conclusion: A Mixed-Form Tradition of Literary Theory and Practice; Bibliography; Index. - Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work's sociopolitical heft and meaning. In Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages, Eleanor Johnson reveals that aesthetics-the formal aspects of literary language that make it sense-perceptible-are indeed inextricable from ethics in the writing of medieval literature. Johnson brings a keen formalist eye to bear on the prosimetric form: the mixing of prose with lyrical poetry. This form descend
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Emner | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus : (NO-TrBIB)90083479
Chaucer, Geoffrey : (NO-TrBIB)90066945 Gower, John : (NO-TrBIB)90246557 Hoccleve, Thomas : (NO-TrBIB)90136431 Vis mer... Usk, Thomas : (NO-TrBIB)1040966
Literature, Medieval Boethius, d. 524. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism. Ethics, Medieval, in literature. Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?-1450?. Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism. Usk, Thomas, d. 1388. English Literature English Etikk Historisk framstilling Languages & Literatures Litteraturkritikk Middelalderen Middelengelsk litteratur |
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ISBN | 022601584X. - 9780226015842
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