Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages

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.

Year

2013

Language

English

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Editions

6

Pages

264

ISBN

9780226015842

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