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Author : Peter Nicholson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Christian ethics in literature
ISBN : 047211512X
Offers a comprehensive new reading of the most important English work of Chaucer's best-known contemporary
Author : Peter Nicholson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 085991318X
Eleven essays by influential scholars (from C.S. Lewis to A.J. Minnis] provide an introduction for students to Gower's Confessio Amantisand its important criticism.
Author : John Gower
Publisher : Michigan State University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015029123737
The Mirour de l'Omme (The Mirror of Mankind) is an encyclopedia of moral topics, including a vivid allegory of the Seven Deadly Sins. Author John Gower (1330-1408) was a poet, personal friend of Chaucer, and the most prominent member of his literary circle.
Author : John Gower,Medieval Academy of America
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0802064388
Originally published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1966.
Author : John Gower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004875667
Author : Matthew W. Irvin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843843399
An examination of Gower's skilful deployment of personae in his works, showing the parallels between the way he treats love, and the way he treats politics.
Author : Ellen S. Bakalian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135879914
Throughout the tales in the Confessio Amantis, John Gower proposes that reciprocal love is the remedy to what ails man and society. This book explores how Gower uses the aspects of love in the Confessio-the notions of kinde, or passionate love, and reason in the sphere of love; honeste love in the Marriage Tales of the Four Wives; passionate and excessive love in the Forsaken Women's tales; and Amans's lovesickness. In her thorough examination of Gower's work, Ellen S. Bakalian shows how Gower emphasizes and illustrates a belief that reason must rule man in all things, including his natural instincts to love.
Author : Russell A. Peck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015003636233
Confessio Amantis, the principal work in English by John Gower, friend of Chaucer, by whom he was influenced, has always been read as a conventional poem about the seven deadly sins. Here, paying particular attention to the poem's language and style, Peck gives a brilliant new reinterpretation which not only illuminates the poem's elegant beauty but provides a profound moral purpose as well. Gower's Confessio, according to Peck, is a restatement of late fourteenth-century ideas of good and bad behavior, and is designed to illuminate and reshape the minds and hearts of men. Peck sees the concepts of "kingship"--the governance of souls as well as kingdoms--and "common profit"--the mutual enhancement of such kingdoms--as the poem's unifying ideas. Peck's discussion further shows how the various tales hold together and support the poem's loose plot and the poet's strongly moral intention.
Author : Ana Saez-Hidalgo,Brian Gastle,R.F. Yeager
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317043034
The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower reviews the most current scholarship on the late medieval poet and opens doors purposefully to research areas of the future. It is divided into three parts. The first part, "Working theories: medieval and modern," is devoted to the main theoretical aspects that frame Gower’s work, ranging from his use of medieval law, rhetoric, theology, and religious attitudes, to approaches incorporating gender and queer studies. The second part, "Things and places: material cultures," examines the cultural locations of the author, not only from geographical and political perspectives, or in scientific and economic context, but also in the transmission of his poetry through the materiality of the text and its reception. "Polyvocality: text and language," the third part, focuses on Gower’s trilingualism, his approach to history, and narratological and intertextual aspects of his works. The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower is an essential resource for scholars and students of Gower and of Middle English literature, history, and culture generally.
Author : John F. Miller,Carole E. Newlands
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118876183
A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30original essays written by leading scholars revealing the richdiversity of critical engagement with Ovid’s poetry thatspans the Western tradition from antiquity to the presentday. Offers innovative perspectives on Ovid’s poetry and itsreception from antiquity to the present day Features contributions from more than 30 leading scholars inthe Humanities. Introduces familiar and unfamiliar figures in the history ofOvidian reception. Demonstrates the enduring and transformative power ofOvid’s poetry into modern times.
Author : John Gower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004875717
Author : Stephen Rigby,Siân Echard
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781843845379
The late fourteenth century was the age of the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the deposition of Richard II, the papal schism and the emergence of the heretical doctrines of John Wyclif and the Lollards. These social, political and religious crises and conflicts were addressed not only by preachers and by those involved in public affairs but also by poets, including Chaucer and Langland. Above all, though, it is in the verse of John Gower that we find the most direct engagement with contemporary events. Yet, surprisingly, few historians have examined Gower's responses to these events or have studied the broader moral and philosophical outlook which he used to make sense of them. Here, a number of eminent medievalists seek to demonstrate what historians can add to our understanding of Gower's poetry and his ideas about society (the nobility and chivalry, the peasants and the 1381 revolt, urban life and the law), the Church (the clergy, papacy, Lollardy, monasticism, and the friars) gender (masculinity and women and power), politics (political theory and the deposition of Richard II) and science and astronomy. The book also offers an important reassessment of Gower's biography based on newly-discovered primary sources. STEPHEN RIGBY is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Social and Economic History at the University of Manchester; SIAN ECHARD is Professor of English, University of British Columbia. Contributors: Mark Bailey, Michael Bennett, Martha Carlin, James Davis, Seb Falk, Christopher Fletcher, David Green, David Lepine, Martin Heale, Katherine Lewis, Anthony Musson, Stephen Rigby, Jens Röhrkasten.
Author : Cristina Maria Cervone,D. Vance Smith
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844464
Essays on a variety of topics in late medieval literature, linked by an engagement with form.
Author : Eleanor Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226527451
Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work’s sociopolitical heft and meaning. In Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages, Eleanor Johnson reveals that aesthetics—the formal aspects of literary language that make it sense-perceptible—are indeed inextricable from ethics in the writing of medieval literature. Johnson brings a keen formalist eye to bear on the prosimetric form: the mixing of prose with lyrical poetry. This form descends from the writings of the sixth-century Christian philosopher Boethius—specifically his famous prison text, Consolation of Philosophy—to the late medieval English tradition. Johnson argues that Boethius’s text had a broad influence not simply on the thematic and philosophical content of subsequent literary writing, but also on the specific aesthetic construction of several vernacular traditions. She demonstrates the underlying prosimetric structures in a variety of Middle English texts—including Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and portions of the Canterbury Tales, Thomas Usk’s Testament of Love, John Gower’s Confessio amantis, and Thomas Hoccleve’s autobiographical poetry—and asks how particular formal choices work, how they resonate with medieval literary-theoretical ideas, and how particular poems and prose works mediate the tricky business of modeling ethical transformation for a readership.
Author : Elisabeth M. Dutton,John Hines,Robert F. Yeager
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843842507
These essays demonstrate John Gower's mastery of the three languages of medieval England - Latin, French and English. They examine the cultural re-definitions which his translations of literary traditions and languages achieved.