Dutton John Gower, Trilingual Poet

Language, Translation, and Tradition
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84615-887-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 3, 370 Seiten

Reihe: Westfield Medieval Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dutton, Elisabeth

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hines, John

Yeager, Robert F.

Boboc, Andreea D.

Galloway, Andrew

Gastle, Brian

Barrington, Candace

Collette, Carolyn P

Hume, Cathy

Carlson, David R.

Dutton, Elisabeth

Kendall, Elliot

Knapp, Ethan

Shuffleton, George

Barbaccia, Holly

Pouzet, Jean-Pascal

Burrow, John A.

Bowers, John M.

Taylor, Karla

Zarins, Kim

Driver, Martha W.

Matthew Irvine, Matthew

Saul, Nigel

Nicholson, Peter

Green, Richard Firth

Edwards, Robert R.

Batkie, Stephanie L.

O'Callaghan, Tamara F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. John Gower: Readings in the Work of a Trilingual Poet - Elisabeth Dutton
Southwark Gower - Augustinian Agencies in Gower's Manuscripts and Texts - Some Prolegomena - Jean-Pascal Pouzet
The Place of Egypt in Gower's Confessio Amantis - Ethan Knapp
Topical and Tropological Gower: Invoking Armenia in the Confessio Amantis - Carolyn P Collette
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: Confict or Evasion? - George Shuffleton
John Gower: Prophet or Turncoat? - Nigel Saul
The Parliamentary Source of Gower's Cronica Tripertita and Incommensurable Styles - David R. Carlson
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 D. 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
Genius and Sensual Reading in the Vox Clamantis - Matthew W. Irvin
Irony v. Paradox in the Confessio Amantis - Peter Nicholson
Sinning against Love in Confessio Amantis - John 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 Firth Green
Why did Gower write the Traitié? - Cathy Hume
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 - Robert F. Yeager
Conjuring Gower in Pericles - Martha W. Driver
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Dutton Elisabeth:
ELISABETH DUTTON is Professor of Medieval English at Fribourg, Switzerland.Hines John:
JOHN HINES is Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University.Hume Cathy:
CATHY HUME is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol.Dutton Elisabeth:
ELISABETH DUTTON is Professor of Medieval English at Fribourg, Switzerland.Saul Nigel:
NIGEL SAUL is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London