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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1 online resource (265 p.)
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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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022601584X. - 9780226015842

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