Title: Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages
Description: 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 language that make it sense-perceptible - are indeed inextricable from ethics in the writing of medieval literature.
Subjects: English literature, Medieval Literature, Ethics, Medieval, in literature, History and criticism, Boethius, -524, Chaucer, geoffrey, -1400, Gower, john, 1325-1408, Hoccleve, thomas, 1370?-1450?, English literature, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500, Ethics, medieval, Literature, medieval, history and criticism, Authors, english