Aspects of Love in John Gower's: Confessio Amantis

ISBN-13: 9780415969765 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 224 str.

Ellen Shaw Bakalian

Opis

Throughout the tales in the Confessio Amantis, John Gower proposes that reciprocal love is the remedy to what ails man and society. This study explores how Gower uses the aspects of love in the Confessio and emphasizes and illustrates a belief that reason much rule man inn all things, including his natural instincts to love.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.