Sensible Prose and the Sense of Meter: Boethian Prosimetrics and the Fourteenth Century.
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, Eleanor.
Sensible Prose and the Sense of Meter: Boethian Prosimetrics and the Fourteenth Century.
- Published
- A. Joseph McMullen and Erica Weaver, eds. The Legacy of Boethius in Medieval England: The "Consolation" and Its Afterlives (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018.), pp. 125-42.
- Description
- Explores the rational power of prose and the affective power of poetry to effect ethical transformation in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," linking the work's prosimetric alteration with its theme of providential causation, and arguing that later vernacular writers modified the mixed form in ways that privilege poetry. Assessed as an extended example here, TC substitutes historical narration and emotive narratorial comment--both in verse--for the prose/poetry alternations of Boethius's mixed form.
- Alternative Title
- The Legacy of Boethius in Medieval England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations