Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary workOCOs sociopolitical heft and meaning. In "Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages," Eleanor Johnson reveals that aestheticsOCothe formal aspects of literary language that make it sense-perceptibleOCoare indeed inextricable from ethics in the writing of medieval literature.aJohnson brings a keen formalist eye to bear on the prosimetric form: the mixing of ...
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Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary workOCOs sociopolitical heft and meaning. In "Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages," Eleanor Johnson reveals that aestheticsOCothe formal aspects of literary language that make it sense-perceptibleOCoare indeed inextricable from ethics in the writing of medieval literature.aJohnson brings a keen formalist eye to bear on the prosimetric form: the mixing of prose with lyrical poetry. This form descends from the writings of the sixth-century Christian philosopher BoethiusOCospecifically his famous prison text, "Consolation of Philosophy"OCoto the late medieval English tradition. Johnson argues that BoethiusOCOs text had a broad influence not simply on the thematic and philosophical content of subsequent literary writing, but also on the specific aesthetic construction of several vernacular traditions. She demonstrates the underlying prosimetric structures in a variety of Middle English textsOCoincluding ChaucerOCOs "Troilus and Criseyde "and portions of the "Canterbury Tales," Thomas UskOCOs "Testament of Love," John GowerOCOs "Confessio amantis," and Thomas HoccleveOCOs autobiographical poetryOCoand asks how particular formal choices work, how they resonate with medieval literary-theoretical ideas, and how particular poems and prose works mediate the tricky business of modeling ethical transformation for a readership.
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