LEADER 03993nam 2200745 450 001 9910797239803321 005 20230410060210.0 010 $a1-4426-5627-1 010 $a1-4426-3299-2 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442656277 035 $a(CKB)3710000000433111 035 $a(EBL)3432192 035 $a(OCoLC)929153906 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001637384 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16395796 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001637384 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14643164 035 $a(PQKB)10392334 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4669507 035 $a(CEL)449892 035 $a(OCoLC)918589059 035 $a(CaBNVSL)kck00235813 035 $a(DE-B1597)465683 035 $a(OCoLC)944178649 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442656277 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4669507 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256039 035 $a(OCoLC)958571064 035 $a(OCoLC)1082821983 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_107049 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000433111 100 $a20160920h19821982 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEthical poetic of the later Middle Ages $ea decorum of convenient distinction /$fJudson Boyce Allen 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1982. 210 4$dİ1982 215 $a1 online resource (348 p.) 225 0 $aHeritage 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4426-5139-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. Ethical poetry, poetic ethics, and the sentence of poetry --$t2. Poetic thinking and the forma tractandi --$t3. Poetic disposition and the forma tractatus --$t4. Assimilatio and the material of poetry --$t5. The assimilation of the real world --$t6. 'Consideratio' and the audiences of poetry --$tIndex of subjects and authors --$tIndex of manuscripts 330 $aThis 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 reading. Allen chooses texts whose commentary tradition provides the greatest opportunity for completeness. The most important of these is Ovid's Metamorphoses. Medieval readings of Ovid bring into focus a number of major literary questions--the problems of fable and fiction, of unity imposed by miscellany poetry, of allegorical commentary, and of Christian use of pagan culture--all in connection with text which furnished medieval authors with more stories than any other single source except possibly the Bible. Allen also studies commentaries on the Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius, the Thebaid of Statius, the De nuptiis of Martianus Capella, the medieval Christian hymn-book, and the Poetria nova of Geoffrey of Vinsauf. Together these texts represent the range of medieval literature--a literature which, Allen concludes, was taken as direct ethical discourse, logically conducted and artfully organized within a system of language that also assimilated the natural world and sought to absorb its audience. 606 $aCriticism, Medieval$xHistory 606 $aPoetics$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism 608 $aHistory. 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCriticism, Medieval$xHistory. 615 0$aPoetics$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a801/.951/0902 700 $aAllen$b Judson Boyce$f1932-1985,$0164390 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797239803321 996 $aEthical poetic of the later middle ages$9484034 997 $aUNINA