| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 219 pages) : illustrations |
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Medieval cultures ; v. 38 |
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Medieval cultures ; v. 38.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Social Gower -- part 1. Language -- Gower's Babel tower: language choice and the grammar of sex -- Writing like a man: rhetoric and geneaology -- part 2. Sex -- Transgressive genders and subversive sexualities -- Sexual chaos and sexual sin -- part 3. Politics -- Tyranny, reform, and self-government -- Oedipus, Apollonius, and Richard II -- Epilogue: Ethical Gower |
| Summary |
Drawing on a combination of queer and feminist theory, ethical criticism, and psychoanalytic, historicist, and textual criticism, Diane Watt focuses on the language, sex, and politics in Gowers writing. She demonstrates that Gower engaged in the sort of critical thinking more commonly associated with Chaucer and William Langland and contributes to modern debates about the ethics of criticism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-206) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis.
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Gower, John, 1325?-1408 -- Political and social views
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Gower, John, 1325?-1408 -- Language
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Gower, John, 1325?-1408 -- Ethics
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Gower, John, 1325?-1408. |
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Confessio amantis (Gower, John) |
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Ethics, Medieval, in literature.
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
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Courtly love in literature.
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Politics in literature.
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Sex in literature.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Courtly love in literature.
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Ethics.
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Ethics, Medieval, in literature.
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Language and languages.
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Political and social views.
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Politics and literature.
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Politics in literature.
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Sex in literature.
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Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816694129 |
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0816694125 |
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9780816640270 |
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0816640270 |
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9780816640287 |
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0816640289 |
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