Confessio Amantis of John Gower
Author : John Gower
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN :
Author : John Gower
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN :
Author : John Gower
Publisher : Michigan State University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
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 : Peter Nicholson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780859913188
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 : Diane Watt
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Courtly love in literature
ISBN : 9781452905914
Author : Matthew W. Irvin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 23,31 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843843390
Gower's use of the persona, the figure of the writer implicated in the text, is the main theme of this book. While it traces the development of Gower's voice through his major works, it concentrates on the dialogue of Amans and Genius in the Confessio Amantis. It argues that Gower negotiates problems of politics and problems of love by means of an analogy between political ethics and the rules of fin amour; Amans and Genius are both drawn from and occupied with amatory and ethical traditions, and their discourse produces a series of attempts to find a coherent and rational union of lover and ruler. The volume also argues that Gower's goal is poetic as well as political: through the personae, Gower's readers experience the pains and pleasures of erotic and social love. Gower's personae voice potential responses to exemplary experience, prompting readers to feel and to judge, and moving them to become better lovers and better rulers. Gower's analogy between fin amour and politics brings the affects of the lover to the action of government, and suggests for both love and rule the moderation that brings peace and joy. Matthew W. Irvin is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Chair of the Medieval Studies Program at Sewanee.
Author : Russell A. Peck
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
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 : John Gower
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780802064387
Originally published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1966.
Author : John Gower
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
The complete text of John Gower's Confessio Amantis is a 3-volume edition, including all Latin components-with translations-of this bilingual poem and extensive glosses, bibliography, and explanatory notes.
Author : Peter Nicholson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Christian ethics in literature
ISBN : 9780472115129
Offers a comprehensive new reading of the most important English work of Chaucer's best-known contemporary
Author : Ana Sáez-Hidalgo
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 184384320X
John Gower's great poem, the Confessio Amantis, was the first work of English literature translated into any European language. Occasioned by the existence in Spain of fifteenth-century Portuguese and Spanish manuscripts of the Confessio, the nineteen essays brought together here represent new and original approaches to Gower's role in Anglo-Iberian literary relations. They include major studies of the palaeography of the Iberian manuscripts; of the ownership history of the Portuguese Confessio manuscript; of the glosses of Gowerian manuscripts; and of the manuscript of the Yale Confessio Amantis. Other essays situate the translations amidst Anglo-Spanish relations generally in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; examine possible Spanish influences on Gower's writing; and speculate on possible providers of the Confessio to Philippa, daughter of John of Gaunt and queen of Portugal. Further chapters broaden the scope of the volume. Amongst other topics, they look at Gower's use of Virgilian/Dantean models; classical gestures in the Castilian translation; Gower's conscious contrasting of epic ideals and courtly romance; nuances of material goods and the idea of "the good" in the Confessio; Marxian aesthetics, Balzac, and Gowerian narrative in late medieval trading culture between England and Iberia; reading the Confessio through the lens of gift exchange; literary form in Gower's later Latin poems; Gower and Alain Chartier as international initiators of a new "public poetry"; and the modern sales history of manuscript and early printed copies of the Confessio, and what it reveals about literary trends. Ana S ez Hidalgo is Associate Professor at the University of Valladolid, Spain; R.F. Yeager is Professor of English and World Languages and chair of the department at the University of West Florida. Contributors: Mar a Bull n-Fern ndez, David R. Carlson, Si n Echard, A.S.G. Edwards, Robert R. Edwards, Tiago Vi la de Faria, Andrew Galloway, Fernando Galv n, Marta Mar a Guti rrez Rodr guez, Mauricio Herrero Jim nez, Ethan Knapp, Roger A. Ladd, Alberto L zaro, Mar a Luisa L pez-Vidriero Abell , Matthew McCabe, Alastair J. Minnis, Clara Pascual-Argente, Tamara Para A. Shailor, Winthrop Wetherbee