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Książka Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages Eleanor Johnson

Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages

Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve

Autor: Eleanor Johnson
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydawca: The University of Chicago Press
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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186.05 zł
Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that...

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Autor
Eleanor Johnson
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2018
strony
264
EAN
9780226527451
ISBN
022652745X
Enbook ID
16060056
Wydawca
The University of Chicago Press
Waga
394
Wymiary
230 x 154 x 17

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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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