Chaucer, Gower, and the Affect of Invention /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nowlin, Steele, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Gower, John, > 1325?-1408.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Criticism and interpretation.
Gower, John, > 1325?-1408 > Criticism and interpretation.
Invention (Rhetoric)
English poetry > Middle English.
Affect (Psychology) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Invention (Rhetorique)
Poesie anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "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.

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