Confessio Amantis of John Gower
Author : John Gower
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Page : 428 pages
File Size : 25,86 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Christian ethics
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Author : John Gower
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 25,86 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Christian ethics
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Author : John Gower
Publisher : Michigan State University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Collections
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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 : Matthew W. Irvin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,18 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 : Diane Watt
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Courtly love in literature
ISBN : 9781452905914
Author : Peter Nicholson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 22,25 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 : John Gower
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Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 1857
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Author : John Gower
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 1857
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Author : Martha W. Driver
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843845539
Essays considering the relationship between Gower's texts and the physical ways in which they were first manifested.
Author : Russell A. Peck
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Page : 240 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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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
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Page : 428 pages
File Size : 18,9 MB
Release : 1857
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