Gower's Confessio Amantis
Subtitle: responses and reassessments
By: edited by A.J. Minnis.
Contributors: Minnis, A. J.
Publisher: D.S. Brewer; Distributed in the U.S.A. by Biblio Distribution Services
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Cambridge; Totowa, N.J., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Gower, John, 1325?-1408.; Love poetry, English (Middle) -- History and criticism.; Christian ethics in literature.; Courtly love in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The portrayal of Amans in Confessio Amantis / J.A. Burrow; title: Metamorphosis in other words / Christopher Ricks; title: "Moral Gower" and medieval literary theory / Alastair Minnis; title: John Gower, satiric poet / Paul Miller; title: Art and ethics in the Exempla of Confessio Amantis / Charles Runacres; title: Gower's ethical microcosm and political macrocosm / Elizabeth Porter; title: Confessio Amantis, the poem and its pictures / Jeremy Griffiths; title: The Gower tradition / Derek Pearsall.