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Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages - Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve (Paperback)
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Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages - Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve (Paperback)
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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 descends from the writings of
the sixth-century Christian philosopher Boethius specifically his
famous prison text, Consolation of Philosophy to the late medieval
English tradition. Johnson argues that Boethius's text had a broad
influence not simply on the thematic and philosophical content of
subsequent literary writing, but also on the specific aesthetic
construction of several vernacular traditions. She demonstrates the
underlying prosimetric structures in a variety of Middle English
texts including Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and portions of the
Canterbury Tales, Thomas Usk's Testament of Love, John Gower's
Confessio amantis, and Thomas Hoccleve's autobiographical poetry
and asks how particular formal choices work, how they resonate with
medieval literary-theoretical ideas, and how particular poems and
prose works mediate the tricky business of modeling ethical
transformation for a readership.
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