Book Review of: Eleanor Johnson, Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages: Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve

Eleanor Johnson's book demonstrates that “the aesthetic power of literary language—its power to make ideation sensory and hence experiential through form and style—is fundamental to late medieval experimentation with ethically transformative writing” (3–4). As that quotation indicates, Johnson...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bahr, Arthur W.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. Literature Section
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge University Press 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102082
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3255-051X