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Title:

John Gower, trilingual poet : language, translation, and tradition / edited by Elisabeth Dutton with John Hines and R.F. Yeager.

Publisher:

D.S. Brewer,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xii, 358 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Gower, John,--1325?-1408--Criticism and interpretation.

Other Authors:

Dutton, Elisabeth M.
Hines, John, 1956-
Yeager, Robert F.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Candace Barrington ; Se-duction and sovereign power in Gower's Confessio amantis book V / Augustinian agencies in Gower's manuscripts and texts : some prolegomena / Jean-Pascal Pouzet -- Gower looking East. The place of Egypt in Gower's Confessio amantis / Ethan Knapp ; Topical and tropological Gower : invoking Armenia in the Confessio amantis / Carolyn P. Collette -- Politics, prophecy and apocalypse. 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 : conflict or evasion / George Shuffelton ; John Gower : prophet or turncoat? / Nigel Saul ; The parliamentary source of Glower's Cronica tripertita and incommensurable styles / David R. Carlson -- Science, law and economy. John Gower's legal advocacy and "In praise of peace" / Candace Barrington ; Se-duction and sovereign power in Gower's Confessio amantis book V /
Cathy Hume -- Gower's Confessio and Chaucer's Legend of good women / 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 -- Sin, love, sex and gender. Genius and sensual reading in the Vox clamantis / Matthew Irvin ; Irony v. paradox in the Confessio amantis / Peter Nicholson ; Sinning against love in Confessio amantis / J.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 F. Green ; Why did Gower write the Traitié? / Cathy Hume -- Gower "translated". Rival poets : Gower's Confessio and Chaucer's Legend of good women /
Martha Driver. Conjuring Gower in Pericles / Andrew Galloway ; John Gower's French and his readers / R.F. Yeager ; Conjuring Gower in Pericles / Martha Driver.

Series:

Westfield medieval studies, 1752-5659. ; v. 3.

ISBN:

1843842505 (hbk.)
9781843842507 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)502045732

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)