John Gower, trilingual poet
Subtitle: language, translation, and tradition
By: edited by Elisabeth Dutton, John Hines and R.F. Yeager
Series: Westfield medieval studies, 1752-5659 -- v. 3.; Westfield medieval studies -- v. 3.
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781843842507
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-352) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Elisabeth Dutton; title: Gower at source. Southwark Gower :; title: Augustinian agencies in Gower's manuscripts and texts :; title: some prolegomena  -- Jean-Pascal Pouzet; title: Gower looking East. The place of Egypt in Gower's Confessio amantis  -- Ethan Knapp ;; title: Topical and tropological Gower :; title: invoking Armenia in the Confessio amantis  -- Carolyn P. Collette; title: Politics, prophecy and apocalypse. Saving history :; title: Gower's apocalyptic and the new arion  -- Elliot Kendall ;; title: Gower's poetics of the literal  -- Robert R. Edwards ;; title: Romance, popular style and the Confessio amantis :; title: conflict or evasion  -- George Shuffelton ;; title: John Gower :; title: prophet or turncoat?  -- Nigel Saul ;; title: The parliamentary source of Glower's Cronica tripertita and incommensurable styles  -- David R. Carlson; title: Science, law and economy. John Gower's legal advocacy and "In praise of peace"  -- Candace Barrington ;; title: Se-duction and sovereign power in Gower's Confessio amantis book V  -- Andreea Boboc ;; title: The fifteen stars, stones and herbs :; title: book VII of the Confessio amantis and its afterlife  -- Tamara F. O'Callaghan ;; title: "of the parfite medicine" :; title: Merita perpetuata in Gower's vernacular alchemy  -- Stephanie L. Batkie ;; title: Inside out in Gower's republic of letters  -- Karla Taylor ;; title: Gower's business :; title: artistic production of cultural capital and the tale of Florent  -- Brian Gastle; title: Sin, love, sex and gender. Genius and sensual reading in the Vox clamantis  -- Matthew Irvin ;; title: Irony v. paradox in the Confessio amantis  -- Peter Nicholson ;; title: Sinning against love in Confessio amantis  -- J.A. Burrow ;; title: The woman's response in John Gower's Cinkante balades  -- Holly Barbaccia ;; title: Rich words :; title: Gower's Rime riche in dramatic action  -- Kim Zarins ;; title: Florent's Mariage sous la potence  -- Richard F. Green ;; title: Why did Gower write the Traitié?  -- Cathy Hume; title: Gower "translated". Rival poets :; title: Gower's Confessio and Chaucer's Legend of good women  -- John M. Bowers ;; title: Reassessing Gower's dream-visions  -- Andrew Galloway ;; title: John Gower's French and his readers  -- R.F. Yeager ;; title: Conjuring Gower in Pericles -- Martha Driver.