UID:
almafu_9961009570902883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 358 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-280-48905-7
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9786613584281
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1-84615-887-7
Series Statement:
Westfield medieval studies, v. 3
Content:
New essays demonstrate Gower's mastery of the three languages of medieval England, and provide a thorough exploration of the voices he used and the discourses in which he participated. John Gower wrote in three languages - Latin, French, and English - and their considerable and sometimes competing significance in fourteenth-century England underlies his trilingualism. The essays collected in this volume start from Gower as trilingual poet, exploring Gower's negotiations between them - his adaptation of French sources into his Latin poetry, for example - as well as the work of medieval translators who made Gower's French poetry availablein English. "Translation" is also considered more broadly, as a "carrying over" (its etymological sense) between genres, registers, and contexts, with essays exploring Gower's acts of translation between the idioms of varied literary and non-literary forms; and further essays investigate Gower's writings from literary, historical, linguistic, and codicological perspectives. Overall, the volume bears witness to Gower's merit and his importance to English literary history, and increases our understanding of French and Latin literature composed in England; it also makes it possible to understand and to appreciate fully the shape and significance of Gower's literary achievement and influence, which have sometimes suffered in comparison to Chaucer. ELISABETH DUTTON is Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. Contributors: Elisabeth Dutton, Jean Pascal Pouzet, Ethan Knapp, Carolyn P. Collette,Elliot Kendall, Robert R. Edwards, George Shuffleton, Nigel Saul, David Carlson, Candace Barrington, Andreea Boboc, Tamara F. O'Callaghan, Stephanie Batkie, Karla Taylor, Brian Gastle, Matthew Irvin, Peter Nicholson, J.A. Burrow,Holly Barbaccia, Kim Zarins, Richard F. Green, Cathy Hume, John Bowers, Andrew Galloway, R.F. Yeager, Martha Driver.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Mar 2023).
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Gower at source. Southwark Gower :
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Augustinian agencies in Gower's manuscripts and texts :
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some prolegomena /
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Gower looking East. The place of Egypt in Gower's Confessio amantis /
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Topical and tropological Gower :
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invoking Armenia in the Confessio amantis /
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Politics, prophecy and apocalypse. Saving history :
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Gower's apocalyptic and the new arion /
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Gower's poetics of the literal /
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Romance, popular style and the Confessio amantis :
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conflict or evasion /
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John Gower :
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prophet or turncoat? /
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The parliamentary source of Glower's Cronica tripertita and incommensurable styles /
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Science, law and economy. John Gower's legal advocacy and "In praise of peace" /
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Se-duction and sovereign power in Gower's Confessio amantis book V /
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The fifteen stars, stones and herbs :
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book VII of the Confessio amantis and its afterlife /
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"of the parfite medicine" :
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Merita perpetuata in Gower's vernacular alchemy /
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Inside out in Gower's republic of letters /
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Gower's business :
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artistic production of cultural capital and the tale of Florent /
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Sin, love, sex and gender. Genius and sensual reading in the Vox clamantis /
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Irony v. paradox in the Confessio amantis /
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Sinning against love in Confessio amantis /
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The woman's response in John Gower's Cinkante balades /
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Rich words :
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Gower's Rime riche in dramatic action /
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Florent's Mariage sous la potence /
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Why did Gower write the Traitié? /
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Gower "translated". Rival poets :
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Gower's Confessio and Chaucer's Legend of good women /
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Reassessing Gower's dream-visions /
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John Gower's French and his readers /
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Conjuring Gower in Pericles /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84384-250-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781846158872
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781846158872/type/BOOK
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