Art and Obligation: Reading, Ethics, and Middle English Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Wilsbacher, Gregory James.
Art and Obligation: Reading, Ethics, and Middle English Poetry
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 3448A.
- Description
- Examines ethical questions raised by medieval literature for modern readers in the light of modern philosophical studies (Jean-FranƯois Lyotard, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Nancy), as shown in LGW (literature and history), Piers Plowman (fourteenth-century poverty and critics), and PrT (anti-Semitism and critics).
- Modern readers may experience a sense of obligation not easily dealt with.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Prioress and Her Tale.