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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Confessio Amantis"”.
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Studies in the language of some manuscripts of Gower's Confessio Amantis
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"In Propria Persona": Artifice, Politics, and Propriety in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
… author creates different voices, in John Gower's Confessio Amantis. I argue that the Confessio attempts to expose how discourses of sexual desire alienate subjects from their proper place in the political world, and produce artificial personae that only appear socially engaged. The first three …
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The Structural Uses of The Theme of Speech in John Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'
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The Visual Language of Vernacular Manuscript Illumination: John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Pierpont Morgan MS M.126)
The Confessio Amantis, a poem completed in 1393, opens with its author's pledge to: wryte of newe som matiere essampled of these olde wyse [write anew some matter modeled on these old wise books]. Expressing a commonplace among writers of vernacular literature in late medieval England, John Gower …
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A comparison of two medieval story-tellers : Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower
… major work of each author. For Gower this is the Confessio Amantis, his only English work of any length; for Chaucer it is the Canterbury Tales, which, incomplete as it is, is generally accepted as the crown jewel of medieval English literature. The discussion wil be limited further to the framing …
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Madness and Gender in Late-Medieval English Literature
… of madness in Malory’s Morte Darthur, Gower’s Confessio Amantis, and in two autobiographical accounts of madness, the Book of Margery Kempe and Hoccleve’s Series. The experience of madness can both subvert and reinforce gender roles. Madness is commonly seen as an invasion of the self, which, …
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The Anti-Crusade Voice of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
… England. The second chapter reads Gower's Confessio Amantis and Langland's Piers Plowman as anti-crusade poems. The third chapter reads Chaucer's poems written before the Canterbury Tales as a critique of crusading. The fourth chapter argues that one of the central themes of the Canterbury …
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John Gower and the Apollonius-tradition: including an anonymous Latin prose version, the Latin verse version of Godfrey of Viterbo, and John Gower’s English verse version of the Apollonius story (Confessio amantis, book eight), (together with translations of the Latin, notes, and a glossary of Gower’s Middle-English)
… suggests the role of the story within the Confessio Amantis as a whole, whilst the notes which follow the text attempt to elucidate all difficulties, and to draw attention to the fifteenth century Spanish translation of the Confessio as a useful ‘reading’ of the original. In the sections on …
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Bringing Frames into Focus: Reading Middle English Literature
… frame in John Gower’s compilation, Confessio Amantis; the episodic, memory-based frame of contemplative writing in Margery Kempe’s Book; and the narratorial frame accomplished through narratorial tags in The Romaunce of Sir Beves of Hamtoun. All of these frames control the …
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Madmen and mad money: psychological disability and economics in medieval and early modern literature
… range from religious poems such as John Gower’s Confessio Amantis (c. 14th century) to the chivalric romances of Chrétien de Troyes. Likewise, the early modern texts under scrutiny include Ben Jonson’s city comedies and Shakespeare’s tragic Timon of Athens (1607). The wide-ranging nature of the …
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Objects and anxiety in late medieval English writing
… tale of "Albinus and Rosemund" in John Gower's Confessio Amantis and consider how the substance or matter of an object has inherent power, even if it cannot be perceived immediately though senses. In that tale, the central object, a golden and bejeweled cup that was crafted from a human skull, …
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Late medieval authorship and the prophetic tradition
… of England in the Mirour de l’Omme, the Vox Clamantis, and the Confessio Amantis. Christine de Pizan, on the other hand, promotes her career in the traditionally masculine fields of literature and politics by implying that her gender gives her prophetic intuition. In Le Livre de la Mutacion de …