Courtly Love In Chaucer And Gower
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Courtly Love In Chaucer Gowe
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Author : William George Dodd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-08-25
Courtly Love In Chaucer Gowe written by William George Dodd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-25 with History categories.
Courtly Love In Chaucer And Gower
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Author : William George Dodd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Courtly Love In Chaucer And Gower written by William George Dodd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Courtly love categories.
Courtly Love In Chaucer And Gower
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Author : William G. Dodd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972-01-01
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Courtly Love In Chaucer And Gower Classic Reprint
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Author : William George Dodd
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-11-22
Courtly Love In Chaucer And Gower Classic Reprint written by William George Dodd and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-22 with Literary Collections categories.
Excerpt from Courtly Love in Chaucer and Gower This work is a revision of a study originally made by the writer while a student in the Graduate School of Harvard Uni versity. The limitation of the consideration to the so-called love paramours made necessary the omission of much of Chaucer's best and most interesting work. But even so, in what is left, there is abundant opportunity for observing the poet's genius. The romantic love in Chaucer, although it differs in no essential j respect from that treated by his predecessors and contemporaries in France, becomes in his hands the material for an artistic product of an entirely new sort. The very artistic excellence of the work has sometimes led critics, the writer believes, to wrong impressions of the love itself, and hence to wrong assumptions not only as to the poet's purpose but also as to his achievement. This fact may perhaps be considered sufficient reason for the present study. Readers nowadays, as a matter of course and, it would seem, often conventionally, complain of the dullness of Gower. His treatment of love does not make it possible for us to deny the justice of such a complaint. At any rate, to the reader of early erotic literature, he serves the useful purpose of showing by contrast how brilliant may be a real poet's treatment of romantic love. Some such purpose, it is hoped, the chapter on Gower will serve in this study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Love And Marriage In The Age Of Chaucer
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Author : H.A. Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2004-01-30
Love And Marriage In The Age Of Chaucer written by H.A. Kelly and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-30 with History categories.
Spicing erudition with wit, Professor Kelly takes a new look at medieval attitudes toward love, sexuality, and marriage, and he corrects a number of long-standing misconceptions embodied in the concept of courtly love. Through a close examination of canon law, the common practice of clandestine marriage, writings on mysticism, and medieval poetry - particularly Gower's 'Confessio amantis' and Chaucer's romances and their sources - he concludes that medieval lovers favored matrimony and did not consider sexual passion incompatible with virtue. His evidence contradicts the theory, closely associated with C.S. Lewis, that extramarital love was preferred in the Middle Ages, and that the sexual pleasures celebrated by poets were necessarily regarded as immoral by society at large. By placing religious and cultural conventions in their proper context, Professor Kelly shows that the hopes and fears of medieval lovers were much the same as those of lovers of all other ages.
Harvard Studies In English Volume 1
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Author : William George Dodd
language : en
Publisher: Trieste Publishing
Release Date : 2017-07-24
Harvard Studies In English Volume 1 written by William George Dodd and has been published by Trieste Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-24 with History categories.
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Dialogues Of Love And Government
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Author : Alice Spencer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-03-26
Dialogues Of Love And Government written by Alice Spencer and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-26 with Political Science categories.
Dialogues of Love and Government examines the use of the pseudo-Boethian didactic dialogue form in a wide range of Medieval texts on the theme of love by authors including Machaut, Froissart, Dante, Chaucer, Gower, Usk and Hoccleve. Although the broad, almost universal influence of Boethius in the Middle Ages has been much documented, the present study can be said to break new ground on several fronts. Firstly, whereas scholars have so far tended to focus on the visionary, Apocalyptic conventions deployed in the Consolatio and / or its stoical conclusions, this is the first study to examine the influence of the text qua philosophical dialogue. Secondly, Dialogues of Love and Government contains the first thorough exploration of the recurrent binding together of the dialogue form with the courtly love theme in the Middle Ages, proposing a theory that the origins of such a connection might be traced back to the ancient association between Socratic / Platonic elenchus and the spirit Eros. Finally, it analyses the political implications of this relationship, suggesting that the vertical trajectory of the “erotic” dialogue, with its abstraction away from the many to the one, naturally lends itself to the elitism and absolutism of Platonic politics. The frequent ambiguity and irony of courtly love dialogues – the fact that dialogism, to borrow a term from Bakhtin, is rarely fully overcome - can thus be read as implying scepticism about, or even an outright rejection of notions of love and politics which are Platonic in origin.
Idleness Working
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Author : Gregory M. Sadlek
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2004
Idleness Working written by Gregory M. Sadlek and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
Roman and medieval poets and authors not only explored the physicality and sexuality of love, driven by passion and desire, but also saw love as a labour, a project to be worked on and achieved to reach the final goal.
Venus Owne Clerk
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Author : B.W. Lindeboom
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Venus Owne Clerk written by B.W. Lindeboom and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Venus’ Owne Clerk: Chaucer’s Debt to the “Confessio Amantis” will appeal to all those who value a bit of integration of Chaucer and Gower studies. It develops the unusual theme that the Canterbury Tales were signally influenced by John Gower’s Confessio Amantis, resulting in a set-up which is entirely different from the one announced in the General Prologue. Lindeboom seeks to show that this results from Gower’s call, at the end of his first redaction of the Confessio, for a work similar to his – a testament of love. Much of the argument centres upon the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner, who are shown to follow Gower’s lead by both engaging in confessing to all the Seven Deadly Sins while preaching a typically fourteenth-century sermon at the same time. While not beyond speculation at times, the author offers his readers a well-documented and tantalizing glimpse of Chaucer turning away from his original concept for the Canterbury Tales and realigning them along lines far closer to Gower.
Gower S Vulgar Tongue
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Author : T. Matthew N. McCabe
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2011
Gower S Vulgar Tongue written by T. Matthew N. McCabe and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Collections categories.
Why did Gower choose to write his most famous poem in English? New insights into his purpose and the context and tradition of the poem are presented here.