Title Practicing literary theory in the middle ages : ethics and the mixed form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve / Eleanor Johnson

Published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource Contents Formalism and ethics: the practice of literary theory -- Formal experiments with ethical writing: prosimetrum and protrepsis -- Sensible prose and a sense of meter: Chaucer's aesthetic sentence in the Boece and Troilus and Criseyde -- The consolation of tragedy: protrepsis in the Troilus -- Prosimetrum and the Canterbury philosophy of literature -- Political protrepsis: Usk and Gower -- Hoccleve and the convention of mixed-form protrepsis -- Conclusion: a mixed-form tradition of literary theory and practice Summary 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 this work, 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Boethius, -524 Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 Usk, Thomas, -1388. Gower, John, 1325?-1408 Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?-1450? SUBJECT Boethius, -524 fast Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast Gower, John, 1325?-1408 fast Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?-1450? fast Usk, Thomas, -1388 fast Chaucer, Geoffrey 1343-1400 gnd Gower, John 1330-1408 gnd Occleve, Thomas 1368-1430 gnd Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus 480-524 De consolatione philosophiae gnd Usk, Thomas. idsbb Subject English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism Ethics, Medieval, in literature. Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature -- Middle English Ethics, Medieval, in literature Literature, Medieval Rezeption Mittelenglisch Literatur Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780226015989 022601598X 1299560962 9781299560963

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