Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages

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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 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