Practicing literary theory in the middle ages : ethics and the mixed form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve /

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 langu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnson, Eleanor, 1979-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Temas:
Boethius, > -524.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400.
Usk, Thomas, > -1388.
Gower, John, > 1325?-1408.
Hoccleve, Thomas, > 1370?-1450?
Boethius, > -524
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400
Gower, John, > 1325?-1408
Usk, Thomas, > -1388
Chaucer, Geoffrey > 1343-1400
Gower, John > 1330-1408
Occleve, Thomas > 1368-1430
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus > 480-524 > De consolatione philosophiae
Usk, Thomas.
1100 - 1500
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Ethics, Medieval, in literature.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Littérature anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Morale médiévale dans la littérature.
Littérature médiévale > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Middle English
Ethics, Medieval, in literature
Literature, Medieval
Rezeption
Mittelenglisch
Literatur
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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