TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Eleanor
TI  - Practicing literary theory in the middle ages: ethics and the mixed form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve 
SN  - 9780226015989
AV  - PR275 .P733 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Chicago, London
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Boethius,
KW  - Usk, Thomas,
KW  - English literature
KW  - Middle English, 1100-1500
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Ethics, Medieval, in literature
KW  - Literature, Medieval
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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