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Product Description: Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary workâs sociopolitical heft and meaning. In Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages, Eleanor Johnson reveals that aestheticsâthe formal aspects of literary language that make it sense-perceptibleâare indeed inextricable from ethics in the writing of medieval literature...read more
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9780226015842 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 11, 2013, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary workâs sociopolitical heft and meaning.
This book makes a vigorous reassessment of the moral dimension in Chaucer's writings. For the Middle Ages, the study of human behavior generally signified the study of the morality of attitudes, choices, and actions. Moreover, moral analysis was not gender neutral: it presupposed that certain virtues and certain failings were largely gender-specific. Alcuin Blamires, mainly concentrating on The Canterbury Tales, discloses how Chaucer adapts the composite inherited traditions of moral literature to shape the significance and the gender implications of his narratives. Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender is therefore not a theorization of ethical reading but a discussion of Chaucer's engagement with the literature of practical ethical advice. Working with the commonplace primary sources of the period, Blamires demonstrates that Stoic ideals, somewhat uncomfortably absorbed within medieval Christian moral codes as Chaucer realized, penetrate the poet's constructions of how women and men behave in matters (for instance) of friendship and anger, sexuality and chastity, protest and sufferance, generosity and greed, credulity and foresight.The book will be absorbing for all serious readers or teachers of Chaucer because it is packed with commanding new insights. It offers illuminating explanations concerning topics that have often eluded critics in the past: the flood-forecast in The Miller's Tale, for example; or the status of emotion and equanimity in The Franklin's Tale; the "unethical" sexual trading in the Shipman's Tale; the contemporary moral force of a widow's curse in The Friar's Tale; and the quizzical moral link between the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. There is even a new hypothesis about the conceptual design of The Canterbury Tales as a whole. Deeply informed and historically alert, this is a book that engages its reader in the vital role played by ethical assumptions (with their attendant gender assumptions) in Chaucer's major poetry.
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9780199248674 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 2006, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: This book makes a vigorous reassessment of the moral dimension in Chaucer's writings.
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9780199534623 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 15, 2008, cover price $48.95
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9780472115129 | Univ of Michigan Pr, August 18, 2005, cover price $90.00
Product Description: Why do medieval writers routinely make use of exemplary rhetoric? How does it work, and what are its ethical and poetical values? And if Chaucer and Gower must be seen as vigorously subverting it, then why do they persist in using it? Borrowing from recent developments in ethical criticism and theory, this book addresses such questions by reconstructing a late medieval rationale for the ethics of exemplary narrative...read more
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9781843840190 | Ds Brewer, November 1, 2004, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Why do medieval writers routinely make use of exemplary rhetoric?
Product Description: "Moral Gower" he was called by friend and sometime rival Geoffrey Chaucer, and his Confessio Amantis has been viewed as an uncomplicated analysis of the universe, combining erotic narratives with ethical guidance and political commentary...read more
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9780816640270 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: "Moral Gower" he was called by friend and sometime rival Geoffrey Chaucer, and his Confessio Amantis has been viewed as an uncomplicated analysis of the universe, combining erotic narratives with ethical guidance and political commentary.
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9780816640287 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: "Moral Gower" he was called by friend and sometime rival Geoffrey Chaucer, and his Confessio Amantis has been viewed as an uncomplicated analysis of the universe, combining erotic narratives with ethical guidance and political commentary.
Product Description: A study of the Psalter's influence on the language of prescription and proscription, injunction, command, censure, reproof, and other ethical instruction in late medieval England, as well as exegesis and meditation that clearly had a homiletic or polemic bias...read more
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9780812232714 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: A study of the Psalter's influence on the language of prescription and proscription, injunction, command, censure, reproof, and other ethical instruction in late medieval England, as well as exegesis and meditation that clearly had a homiletic or polemic bias.
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9780889463189 | Edwin Mellen Pr, January 1, 1992, cover price $109.95
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9780820406060 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, September 1, 1988, cover price $37.95
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9780404060985 | Ams Pr Inc, December 1, 1978, cover price $18.00
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