1. Formal Experiments with Ethical Writing: Prosimetrum and Protrepsis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Aknowledgments vii
4. INTRODUCTION. Formalism and Ethics: The Practice of Literary Theory 1
5. 1. Formal Experiments with Ethical Writing: Prosimetrum and Protrepsis 19
6. 2. Sensible Prose and a Sense of Meter: Chaucer’s Aesthetic Sentence in the Boece and Troilus and Criseyde 55
7. 3. The Consolation of Tragedy: Protrepsis in the Troilus 92
8. 4. Prosimetrum and the Canterbury Philosophy of Literature 122
9. 5. Political Protrepsis: Usk and Gower 166
10. 6. Hoccleve and the Convention of Mixed-Form Protrepsis 202
11. Conclusion A Mixed-Form Tradition of Literary Theory and Practice 232
12. Bibliography 237
13. Index 251