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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Sadlek, Gregory M., 1950-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2004.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.