Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages

Eleanor Johnson

earliest edition we have, 2013 University of Chicago Press, 2013

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.

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Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages paperback · 2017 · University of Chicago Press · 264 pages · 9780226527451
Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages edition · 2013 · University of Chicago Press · 9780226015989
Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages edition · 2013 · University of Chicago Press · 9781299560963
Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages edition · 2013 · University of Chicago Press · 264 pages · 9780226015842

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