Abstract This double issue of Exemplaria suggests that fifteenth-century literary culture in England promoted a sensibility of provocation, where not only authors but also scribes, translators, readers, recipe-makers, bookmakers, and others engaged in literary-textual-material practices that might be understood as agitative in a speculative or inquisitive way. Of particular importance to this development was the work of John Lydgate, whose poetry agitated his contemporary readers as much as it has his modern critics. In consideration of aesthetic theories by scholars Sianne Ngai, Fred Moten, and Simon Jarvis, this introduction asks that we rethink the ramifications of our responses to Lydgate’s work, and especially the “ugly feelings” that have historically characterized Lydgatean reception. Revisiting written responses to Lydgate’s work from his lifetime and shortly after his death, I explore evidence that the poet deliberately cultivated mixed responses to his work, and that its capacity to perplex, irritate, and rebuff its readers was part of a larger aesthetic strategy more often seen in much later avant-garde writers and artists.

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煽动性的十五世纪

摘要双重表现的示例表明，英国的15世纪文学文化促进了挑衅的敏感性，不仅作家，而且作家，作家，译者，翻译者，读者，食谱制作者，簿记员以及其他从事文学文本材料实践的人可能以投机或好奇的方式被理解为煽动性的。对于这一发展尤为重要的是约翰·利德盖特（John Lydgate）的作品，他的诗歌激起了他的当代读者和现代评论家的热情。考虑到学者Sianne Ngai，Fred Moten和Simon Jarvis的美学理论，本引言要求我们重新思考对Lydgate的作品的回应所产生的影响，尤其是对Lydgatean接待历史上具有代表性的“丑陋感觉”。