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100 1 _aJohnson, Eleanor,
_d1979-
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245 1 0 _aPracticing literary theory in the middle ages :
_bethics and the mixed form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve /
_cEleanor Johnson.
260 _aChicago ;
_aLondon :
_bUniversity of Chicago Press,
_c(c)2013.
300 _a1 online resource
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505 0 0 _aFormalism and ethics: the practice of literary theory --
_tFormal experiments with ethical writing: prosimetrum and protrepsis --
_tSensible prose and a sense of meter: Chaucer's aesthetic sentence in the Boece and Troilus and Criseyde --
_tThe consolation of tragedy: protrepsis in the Troilus --
_tProsimetrum and the Canterbury philosophy of literature --
_tPolitical protrepsis: Usk and Gower --
_tHoccleve and the convention of mixed-form protrepsis --
_tConclusion: a mixed-form tradition of literary theory and practice.
520 8 _aLiterary 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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600 0 0 _aBoethius,
_d-524.
600 1 0 _aUsk, Thomas,
_d-1388.
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_yMiddle English, 1100-1500
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aEthics, Medieval, in literature.
650 0 _aLiterature, Medieval
_xHistory and criticism.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
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