John Gower and the Structures of Conversion: A Reading of the Confessio Amantis

Olsson, Kurt

ISBN 10: 0859913147 / ISBN 13: 9780859913140

Published by D.S, Brewer, Woodbridge, 1992

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8vo, 275 pp., Publications of the John Gower Society series.

Seller Inventory # 108235

Bibliographic Details

• Title: John Gower and the Structures of Conversion: A Reading of the Confessio Amantis
• Publisher: D.S, Brewer, Woodbridge
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859913147
• ISBN 13: 9780859913140
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

`Important book...a broad and detailed account of the structure of Confessio Amantis,' JOHN GOWER NEWSLETTER

Review

One of the most important studies of Gower in recent years. SPECULUM The fullest and most comprehensive attempt to account for (the poem's) diversity of structure, and offers the clearest proposal for a formal model for its interpretation. JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGYA careful, patient, impeccably scholarly reading... a meticulously articulated account of the poem that views it as a serious work of moral philosopjy and exhortation. DEREK PEARSALL, MLR An important book...a broad and detailed account of the structure of Confessio Amantis, in two different senses: first the relationship among (between) among the many components of its form, and second, its thematic structure, as Gower develops his argument from the Prologue to the conclusion.' JOHN GOWER NEWSLETTERA careful, patient