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Chaucer, Gower, and the affect of invention /

In this book, Steele Nowlin examines the process of poetic invention as it is conceptualized and expressed in the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer (1343--1400) and John Gower (ca. 1330--1408). Specifically, it examines how these two poets present invention as an affective force, a process characterized by...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nowlin, Steele, 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2016]
Colección:Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Gooth yet alway under": invention as movement in the House of fame
  • "Ryght swich as ye felten": aligning affect and invention in The legend of good women
  • A thing so strange: macrocosmic emergence in the Confessio amantis
  • "The cronique of this fable": transformative poetry and the chronicle form in the Confessio amantis
  • Empty songs, mighty men, and a startled chicken: satirizing the affect of invention in Fragment VII of the Canterbury tales
  • From ashes ancient come: affective intertextuality in Chaucer, Gower, and Shakespeare.