Aspects of love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis

Informationen zum Autor An independent medieval scholar who holds a doctorate in English and American Literature from New York University, Ellen S. Bakalian also has one foot firmly planted in the world of journalism. Her articles have appeared in The New Yorker and Ladies Home Journal . She also writes for the A&E's literary website, creating teaching guides for their adaptations of literary classics. Klappentext Throughout the tales in the Confessio Amantis, John Gower proposes that reciprocal love is the remedy to what ails man and society. This book explores how Gower uses the aspects of love in the Confessio-the notions of kinde, or passionate love, and reason in the sphere of love; "honeste love" in the Marriage Tales of the Four Wives; passionate and excessive love in the Forsaken Women's tales; and Amans's lovesickness. In her thorough examination of Gower's work, Ellen S. Bakalian shows how Gower emphasizes and illustrates a belief that reason must rule man in all things, including his natural instincts to love. Zusammenfassung Throughout the tales in the Confessio Amantis, John Gower proposes that reciprocal love is the remedy to what ails man and society. This book explores how Gower uses the aspects of love in the Confessio-the notions of kinde, or passionate love, and reason in the sphere of love; honeste love in the Marriage Tales of the Four Wives; passionate and excessive love in the Forsaken Women's tales; and Amans's lovesickness. In her thorough examination of Gower's work, Ellen S. Bakalian shows how Gower emphasizes and illustrates a belief that reason must rule man in all things, including his natural instincts to love. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: The Struggle between Nature and Reason in Gower's Confessio Amantis Tale of Albinus and Rosemund Tale of Pyramus and Thisbe Conclusion Chapter Two: Marriage and the Four Wives Tale of Penelope Tale of Alceone Tale of Alcestis Tale of Lucrece Conclusion Chapter Three: The Love Relationships of the Forsaken Women Tale of Deianira Tale of Medea Tale of Dido Tale of Phyllis Tale of Ariadne Conclusion Chapter Four: Lovesickness in the Confessio Amantis Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index...

Product details

• Authors: Ellen S. Bakalian, Ellen Shaw Bakalian, Bakalian Ellen S.
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.2004
• EAN: 9780415969765
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96976-5
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 236 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Studies in Medieval History an; Studies in Medieval History and Culture; Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Middle English