Idleness working : the discourse of love's labor from Ovid through Chaucer and Gower /
"Inspired by the critical theories of M.M. Bakhtin, Idleness Working is a groundbreaking study of key works in the Western literature of love from Classical Rome to the late Middle Ages. The study focuses on the evolution of the ideologically-saturated discourse of love's labor contained i...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Catholic University of America Press,
©2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The discourse of love's labor and its cultural contexts
- Labor omnia vincit: Roman attitudes toward work and leisure and the discourse of love's labor in Ovid's Ars amatoria
- Noble servitium: aspects of labor ideology in the Christian middle ages and love's labor in the De amore of Andreas Capellanus
- Homo artifex: monastic labor ideologies, urban labor, and love's labor in Alan of Lille's De planctu naturae
- Repose travaillant: the discourse of love's labor in the Roman de la rose
- The vice of Acedia and the gentil occupacion in Gower's Confessio amantis
- Love's bysynesse in Chaucer's amatory fiction.