Aspects of Love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis by Bakalian, Ellen S.

Aspects of Love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415969765)

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Aspects of Love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis by Bakalian, Ellen S.

Aspects of Love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis

$126.99
Aspects of Love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis by Bakalian, Ellen S.

Aspects of Love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis

$126.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Ellen S. Bakalian
ISBN-10: 041596976X
ISBN-13: 9780415969765
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/16/2003
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
By Ellen S. Bakalian
By Ellen S. Bakalian
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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.

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