Fictions Of Witness In The Confessio Amantis

Author : Joel Fredell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3031279662

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Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis by Joel Fredell Pdf

Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis details the first years of the Confessio's material history and offers a major revision to a century's old narrative of political revision and conversion around the trauma of 1400. Joel Fredell argues for "late stage" revisions by Gower to his great poem in Middle English from the late 1390s up to Gower's death in 1408. This approach, new to scholarship for Ricardian and Lancastrian literature, demands profound re-evaluation of Gower's poetic persona and its entanglement in the opening and closing books of the Confessio. It offers a reassessment of the political and literary relationships between versions dedicated to Richard II and Henry IV. It repositions Gower's laureate status in a London world of deluxe book production that created a canon of Ricardian poets linked to their fifteenth-century inheritors. Finally, it identifies for the first time how late medieval authors designed their poetry as fictional artifacts that witness history from quasi-chronicles like Maidstone's Concordia or Richard the Redeless, quasi-petitions like the Lollard "Petition to the King and Parliament," quasi-epistles that begin so many texts, quasi-transcripts such as the Record and Process of the Deposition of Richard II, and so on. Joel Fredell is Professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University, USA.

Author : Joel Fredell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031279645

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Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis by Joel Fredell Pdf

Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis details the first years of the Confessio’s material history and offers a major revision to a century’s old narrative of political revision and conversion around the trauma of 1400. Joel Fredell argues for “late stage” revisions by Gower to his great poem in Middle English from the late 1390s up to Gower’s death in 1408. This approach, new to scholarship for Ricardian and Lancastrian literature, demands profound re-evaluation of Gower's poetic persona and its entanglement in the opening and closing books of the Confessio. It offers a reassessment of the political and literary relationships between versions dedicated to Richard II and Henry IV. It repositions Gower's laureate status in a London world of deluxe book production that created a canon of Ricardian poets linked to their fifteenth-century inheritors. Finally, it identifies for the first time how late medieval authors designed their poetry as fictional artifacts that witness history from quasi-chronicles like Maidstone’s Concordia or Richard the Redeless, quasi-petitions like the Lollard “Petition to the King and Parliament,” quasi-epistles that begin so many texts, quasi-transcripts such as the Record and Process of the Deposition of Richard II, and so on.

Author : E. Scala
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230107564

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Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary Structure in Late Medieval England by E. Scala Pdf

Absent Narratives is a book about the defining difference between medieval and modern stories. In chapters devoted to the major writers of the late medieval period - Chaucer, Gower, the Gawain -poet and Malory - it presents and then analyzes a set of unique and unnoticed phenomena in medieval narrative, namely the persistent appearance of missing stories: stories implied, alluded to, or fragmented by a larger narrative. Far from being trivial digressions or passing curiosities, these absent narratives prove central to the way these medieval works function and to why they have affected readers in particular ways. Traditionally unseen, ignored, or explained away by critics, absent narratives offer a valuable new strategy for reading medieval texts and the historically specific textual culture in which they were written.

Author : Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2200000103994

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The Classic Collection of Dorothy L. Sayers. Novels and short stories. Illustrated by Dorothy L. Sayers Pdf

Dorothy Leigh Sayers was an English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist; she was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is perhaps best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories, set between the First and Second World Wars, which feature Lord Peter Wimsey, an English aristocrat and amateur sleuth. Novels Whose Body? Clouds of Witness Unnatural Death Short Stories The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers The Entertaining Episode of the Article in Question The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleager’s Will The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag The Unprincipled Affair of the Practical Joker The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps That Ran The Bibulous Business of a Matter of Taste The Learned Adventure of the Dragon’s Head The Piscatorial Farce of the Stolen Stomach The Unsolved Puzzle of the Man with No Face The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba

Author : Donald Gustave Schueler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000005264773

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A Critical Evaluation of John Gower's Confessio Amantis by Donald Gustave Schueler Pdf

Author : Peter Nicholson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Christian ethics in literature
ISBN : 047211512X

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Love & Ethics in Gower's Confessio Amantis by Peter Nicholson Pdf

Offers a comprehensive new reading of the most important English work of Chaucer's best-known contemporary

Author : Kristin M.S. Bezio,Scott Oldenburg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000487695

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Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace by Kristin M.S. Bezio,Scott Oldenburg Pdf

Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace explores the complex intersection between the geographic, material, and ideological marketplaces through the lens of religious belief and practice. By examining the religiously motivated markets and marketplace practices in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England, Scotland, and Wales, the volume presents religious praxis as a driving force in the formulation and everyday workings of the social and economic markets. Within the volume, the authors address first spiritual markets and marketplaces, discussing the intersection of Puritan and Protestant Ethics with the market economy. The second part addresses material marketplaces, including the marriage market, commercial trade markets, and the post-Reformation Catholic black market. In the third part of the volume, the chapters focus specifically on publication markets and books, including manuscripts and commonplace books, as well as printed volumes and pamphlets. Finally, the volume concludes with an examination of the literary marketplace, with analyses of plays and poems which engage with and depict both spiritual and material markets. Taken as a whole, this collection posits that the "modern" conception of a division between religion and the socioeconomic marketplace was a largely fictional construct, and the chapters demonstrate the depth to which both were integrated in early modern life.

Author : Judith Ferster
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512805529

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Fictions of Advice by Judith Ferster Pdf

Fictions of Advice historicizes the late medieval mirrors (or handbooks) for princes to reveal how the ambiguities and contradictions characteristic of the genre are responses to—as well as attempts to manage—the risks implicit in advising a king. Often thought of as moralizing advice unable to engage political conflicts, the mirrors for princes have been taken for dull and conventionalized testimonies to the medieval taste for platitude. Judith Ferster maintains that advice was at the center of one of the important political debates in the late Middle Ages: how to constrain the king and allow for his subjects' participation. Fictions of Advice rereads the English mirrors for princes to show how their moralizing was often highly topical and even subversive. Although overtly deferential to the rulers they address, the mirrors' authors were surprisingly capable of criticism and opposition. In putting the texts back into their historical contexts, Ferster reveals the vital cultural and political function they fulfilled in their societies.

Author : Siân Echard
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1843840006

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A Companion to Gower by Siân Echard Pdf

An introduction to Gower and his work, focusing on his sources, historical context and literary tradition; special attention is paid to Confessio Amantis.

Author : Bronach Kane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317320029

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Women, Agency and the Law, 1300–1700 by Bronach Kane Pdf

Based on close readings of both public and private documents – court records, churchwarden accounts, depositions, diaries, letters and pamphlets – this collection of essays presents the largely untold story of non-elite women and their dealings with the law.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199599028

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

A group of pilgrims pass the time during their journey to Canterbury by telling each other stories.

Author : Glenn D. Burger,Holly A. Crocker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108471961

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Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion by Glenn D. Burger,Holly A. Crocker Pdf

Provides a new, intersectional investigation of affects, feelings, and emotions in late Middle English literature.

Author : Lorraine Helms
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512816815

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Seneca by Candlelight and Other Stories of Renaissance Drama by Lorraine Helms Pdf

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book "English Seneca read by candlelight," wrote the Elizabethan author Thomas Nashe, "will afford you whole Hamlets." In the early decades of the twentieth century, literary and theater historians took Nashe at his word, finding Senecan tragedy at the source of Renaissance drama. More recently, critics have been inclined to dismiss traces of classical antiquity as a superficial veneer on a drama derived from medieval traditions. Lorraine Helms revisits this terrain to explore the rich and various ways in which classical learning shaped the theatrical culture of the Renaissance. She uncovers the practical advice on acting and stagecraft to be found in the writings of ancient rhetoricians; reconstructs the extraordinary circumstances under which an English woman first rendered Euripides into her native language; and ponders the precedents in antiquity for Elizabethan portrayals of prostitution and female martyrdom.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literature, Medieval
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122750685

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Chronica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Derek Pearsall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135860073

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The Canterbury Tales by Derek Pearsall Pdf

This classic and eminently readable work provides a full critical introduction to the complete Canterbury Tales. Essential reading for students of Chaucer.