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Poetic voices of John Gower : politics and personae in the Confessio Amantis /
An examination of Gower's skilful deployment of personae in his works, showing the parallels between the way he treats love, and the way he treats politics.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
D.S. Brewer,
2014.
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| Colección: | Publications of the John Gower Society
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Inheritance of the Confessio Amantis
- Aristotelian Prudence
- Moral Personality and Legal Personality
- Propria Persona before the Confessio Amantis
- Carmentis the Muse
- 2. Orientation of the Prologue to the Confessio Amantis
- Gower's Double Readership
- Failure of Interpretation
- Arion and the Possibility of Good Government
- 3. Amorous Persons
- From Lore to Lust
- Persona of Amans
- Persona of Genius
- Genius' Tales
- Tale of Florent
- Prive Florent
- Value of Obedience
- 4. Pity and the Feminine
- Constance in Context
- Interpreting Constance
- Hypothetical Constances: The Range of Endangered Women
- Passivity and Rule
- Justice of Popes and Kings
- "Wikke Ensamples" and Wrath
- Gower Reading Ovid, Gower Reading Canace
- Grace, Nature, and Rule
- 5. Labor and Art
- Forms of Artifice
- Gower's Class Theory of Labor: Vox Clamantis V
- Amans' Noble Idleness
- Decerte and the Crisis of Masculine Authority
- 6. Alienation and Value
- Genius' Alchemical Transformation
- Alchemy's Context
- Profit and Grace
- Grace and Religion in Book V
- Covoitise: Amans and Kings
- Untrue Love: Jason and Medea
- 7. Love of Kings
- Amans the Poet
- Central Place of the Ruler
- Practique in Book VII
- Education of the King and the "Tale of Apollonius"
- Education of Apollonius in Truth
- Noble Pity and Noble Hearts
- Truth, Pity, and the Generation of Affect
- Chastity and Joy
- Justice and Peace.