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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Cambridge University Press
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102082 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3255-051X |