John Gower : others and the self /
The topics of "selfhood" and "otherness" lie at the heart of these new assessments of John Gower's poetry. The first part of the book, on knowing the self and others, focuses on cognition, brain functions, imagination, and the internal and external factors that affect one&#...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Suffolk :
Boydell & Brewer,
2017.
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| Series: | Publications of the John Gower Society ;
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Knowing the self and others.
- The materiality of cognition in reading, staging, and regulation of brain and heart activities in Gower's Confessio Amantis / Russell A. Peck
- The sound of my voice: aurality and credible faith in the Vox Clamantis / Stephanie L. Batkie
- "Noght withoute peine": chastity, complaint, and Lucrece's Vox Clamantis / Matthew W. Irvin
- Reading faces in Gower and Chaucer / Karla Taylor
- Gower and mortality: the ends of storytelling / Helen Cooper
- Part II. The essence of strangers.
- Sensation and the plain style in John Gower's Confessio Amantis / Maura Nolan
- Violence without warning: sympathetic villains and Gower's crafting of Ovidian narrative / Kim Zarins
- Gower, Lydgate, and incest / Larry Scanlon
- Gower's Jews / R. F. Yeager
- Letters of old age: the advocacy of peace in the works of John Gower and Philippe de Mézières / Yoshiko Kobayashi
- Part III. Social ethics, ethical poetics.
- Gower's governmentality: revisiting John Gower as a constitutional thinker and regimental writer / Matthew Giancardo
- Gower's Speculum Iudicis: judicial corruption in Book VI of the Vox Clamantis / Robert J. Meindl
- "The Lucre of Merchandise": poet, patron, and payment in Gower's Confessio Amantis / Brian W. Gastle
- Hidden matter in John Gower's Confessio Amantis / Gabrielle Parkin
- Writing the Cinkante Balades / Peter Nicholson
- Gower in early modern Spanish libraries: the missing link / Ana Sáez-Hidalgo.
