Amoral Gower : language, sex, and politics /

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Drawing on a combination of queer and feminist theory, ethical criticism, and psychoanalytic, historicist, and textual criticism, Diane Watt focuses on the language, sex, and politics in Gowers writing. She demonstrates that Gower engaged in the sort of critical thinking more commonly associated wit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Watt, Diane, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2003.
Colección:Medieval cultures ; v. 38.
Temas:
Gower, John, > 1325?-1408. > Confessio amantis.
Gower, John, > 1325?-1408 > Political and social views.
Gower, John, > 1325?-1408 > Language.
Gower, John, > 1325?-1408 > Ethics.
Gower, John, > 1325?-1408
Confessio amantis (Gower, John)
To 1500
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > To 1500.
Ethics, Medieval, in literature.
Courtly love in literature.
Politics in literature.
Sex in literature.
Morale médiévale dans la littérature.
Amour courtois dans la littérature.
Sexualité dans la littérature.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Courtly love in literature
Ethics
Ethics, Medieval, in literature
Language and languages
Political and social views
Politics and literature
Politics in literature
Sex in literature
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Social Gower
  • part 1. Language
  • Gower's Babel tower: language choice and the grammar of sex
  • Writing like a man: rhetoric and geneaology
  • part 2. Sex
  • Transgressive genders and subversive sexualities
  • Sexual chaos and sexual sin
  • part 3. Politics
  • Tyranny, reform, and self-government
  • Oedipus, Apollonius, and Richard II
  • Epilogue: Ethical Gower.

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