Ellen S Bakalian

Aspects of Love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9780415969765
• ISBN-10: 041596976X
• Artikelnr.: 22298003

Autorenporträt

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 TheNew Yorker and Ladies Home Journal. She also writes for the A&E's literary website, creating teaching guides for their adaptations of literary classics.

Inhaltsangabe

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