Diseased Texts: "Formosa deformitas" and Medieval Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Dominick, Gina A.
Diseased Texts: "Formosa deformitas" and Medieval Literature.
- Published
- Ph.D. dissertation (New York University, 2022), Dissertation Abstracts International A 84.01(E).
- Description
- Explores how texts such as Julian of Norwich's "A Revelation of Divine Love," CT, and Thomas Malory's "Morte Darthur" "unsettle the medieval aesthetic-ethical form of "formosa deformitas," or, the ‘beautiful ugly,’ ” and "bring attention to the ethical compromises made for literary pleasure, as well as the aesthetic and ethical failures or harm of averting a potentially 'diseased' aesthetic."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism