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John Gower, trilingual poet : language, translation, and tradition /

New essays demonstrate Gower's mastery of the three languages of medieval England, and provide a thorough exploration of the voices he used and the discourses in which he participated.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dutton, Elisabeth M., Hines, John, 1956-, Yeager, Robert F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2010.
Colección:Westfield medieval studies ; v. 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Elisabeth Dutton
  • Gower at source. Southwark Gower : Augustinian agencies in Gower's manuscripts and texts : some prolegomena / Jean-Pascal Pouzet
  • Gower looking East. The place of Egypt in Gower's Confessio amantis / Ethan Knapp ; Topical and tropological Gower : invoking Armenia in the Confessio amantis / Carolyn P. Collette
  • Politics, prophecy and apocalypse. Saving history : Gower's apocalyptic and the new arion / Elliot Kendall ; Gower's poetics of the literal / Robert R. Edwards ; Romance, popular style and the Confessio amantis : conflict or evasion / George Shuffelton ; John Gower : prophet or turncoat? / Nigel Saul ; The parliamentary source of Glower's Cronica tripertita and incommensurable styles / David R. Carlson
  • Science, law and economy. John Gower's legal advocacy and "In praise of peace" / Candace Barrington ; Se-duction and sovereign power in Gower's Confessio amantis book V / Andreea Boboc ; The fifteen stars, stones and herbs : book VII of the Confessio amantis and its afterlife / Tamara F. O'Callaghan ; "of the parfite medicine" : Merita perpetuata in Gower's vernacular alchemy / Stephanie L. Batkie ; Inside out in Gower's republic of letters / Karla Taylor ; Gower's business : artistic production of cultural capital and the tale of Florent / Brian Gastle
  • Sin, love, sex and gender. Genius and sensual reading in the Vox clamantis / Matthew Irvin ; Irony v. paradox in the Confessio amantis / Peter Nicholson ; Sinning against love in Confessio amantis / J.A. Burrow ; The woman's response in John Gower's Cinkante balades / Holly Barbaccia ; Rich words : Gower's Rime riche in dramatic action / Kim Zarins ; Florent's Mariage sous la potence / Richard F. Green ; Why did Gower write the Traitié? / Cathy Hume
  • Gower "translated". Rival poets : Gower's Confessio and Chaucer's Legend of good women / John M. Bowers ; Reassessing Gower's dream-visions / Andrew Galloway ; John Gower's French and his readers / R.F. Yeager ; Conjuring Gower in Pericles / Martha Driver.