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Practicing literary theory in the Middle Ages : ethics and the mixed form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve / Eleanor Johnson.

LIBRA PR275.E77 J64 2013
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Johnson, Eleanor, 1979-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
English literature.
Ethics, Medieval, in literature.
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval.
Boethius, -524.
Boethius.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Chaucer, Geoffrey.
Usk, Thomas, -1388.
Usk, Thomas.
Gower, John, 1325?-1408.
Gower, John.
Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?-1450?.
Hoccleve, Thomas.
Physical Description:
ix, 254 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Contents:
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-250) and index.
ISBN:
9780226015842
022601584X
OCLC:
818659714

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