Gower's Vulgar Tongue: Ovid, Lay Religion, and English Poetry in the Confessio Amantis

List of contents

Introduction: Vernacularity and Public Poetry
Gower's Ovidian Voice in English
English Writing and Lay Theology
At the Limits of Clerical Discourse: Gower and "lewed clergie"
Kinde Grace: Metamorphosis in Other Words
Ethics, Art, and Grace
Conclusion: Gower and Public Poetry
Bibliography

About the author

T. Matthew N. McCabe

Product details

• Authors: T Matthew N McCabe, T. Matthew McCabe, T. Matthew N. Mccabe
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2011
• EAN: 9781843842835
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-283-5
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 553 g
• Series: Publications of the John Gower
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Lyrik, Poesie, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Literature - Classics / Criticism, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh