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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Boethius, -524.
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Boethius, -524. |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. |
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Usk, Thomas, -1388.
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Usk, Thomas, -1388. |
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Gower, John, 1325?-1408.
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Gower, John, 1325?-1408. |
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Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?-1450?
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Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?-1450? |
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
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Ethics, Medieval, in literature.
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Ethics, Medieval, in literature. |
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Medieval. |
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1100 - 1500 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Johnson, Eleanor. Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages. University of Chicago Press 2013 9780226015842 |
| ISBN |
9780226015989 (electronic book) |
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022601598X (electronic book) |
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1299560962 (electronic book) |
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9781299560963 (electronic book) |
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9780226015842 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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022601584X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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