The Ethical Poetic of the Later Middle Ages : : A decorum of convenient distinction / / Judson Boyce Allen.
This study of the definition of literature in the late medieval period is based on manuals of writing and on literary commentary and glosses. It defines a method of reading which may now profitably explain medieval texts, and identifies new primary medieval evidence which may ground and guide new re...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1982 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Ethical poetry, poetic ethics, and the sentence of poetry
- 2. Poetic thinking and the forma tractandi
- 3. Poetic disposition and the forma tractatus
- 4. Assimilatio and the material of poetry
- 5. The assimilation of the real world
- 6. 'Consideratio' and the audiences of poetry
- Index of subjects and authors
- Index of manuscripts