Gower's Vulgar tongue : Ovid, lay religion, and English poetry in the Confessio Amantis /
After establishing his reputation as a literary author by means of his French and Latin verse, Gower came to recognise the possibilities which English held for serious poetry in the 1380s. This book gives sustained attention to the implications of this language choice for the form, readership, relig...
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| Formatua: | Licensed eBooks |
| Hizkuntza: | ingelesa |
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Cambridge :
D.S. Brewer,
2011.
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| Saila: | JSTOR EBA.
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt14qrxn6 |
Aurkibidea:
- Frontcover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS AND EDITIONS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION: Vernacularity and Public Poetry; 1. Gower's Ovidian Voice in English; "Upon a Weer": The Prologue and the Shape of the Confessio; Division at the Center: Equivocations about Love; The Transparency of Myth; 2. English Writing and Lay Theology; Vernacular Translation; Theology in English and Latin; 3. At the Limits of Clerical Discourse; Gower and "lewed clergie"; Genius and the Limits of "Lewed Clergie"; Gower's "Burel Clerk" and Other Lay Voices
- Incarnation and the Vernacular: "Three Questions" and "Constantine and Silvester"4. Kinde Grace; Metamorphosis in Other Words; Metamorphosis and Myth; Unkynde Punishments, Kynde Equivocations; Metamorphosis as Reward: Between Nature and Grace; 5. Ethics, Art, and Grace; Ethics, Art, and Textual "Experience"; Chance, Art and Grace: "Apollonius of Tyre"; The Laughter of Venus; CONCLUSION: Gower and Public Poetry; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Backcover