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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Main Author:	Johnson, Eleanor, 1979-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Subjects:	Boethius, > -524. Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400. Usk, Thomas, > -1388. Gower, John, > 1325?-1408. Hoccleve, Thomas, > 1370?-1450. 1100 - 1500 English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism. Ethics, Medieval, in literature. Literature, Medieval > History and criticism. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Available via EBSCO eBook Collection
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