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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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