Gower's Confessio Amantis
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Catholic Doctrine
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Confessio Amantis
Critical Edition
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Product details
- ISBN 9780859913188
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 1991
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Eleven essays by influential scholars (from C.S. Lewis to A.J. Minnis] provide an introduction for students to Gower's Confessio Amantisand its important criticism.
This collection gathers in one place the essays that have done most to shape the modern critical discussion of the Confessio Amantis, and illustrates, by the choice of the landmarks of Gower criticism, how the study of thepoem has evolved. It also provides representative examples of major approaches to the poem and selected studies of its most important aspects The essays provide a valuable indication of precisely what kinds of challenges the Confessio Amantishas posed for modern readers; they will provide the groundwork for all future study of the Confessio
Essays by: G.C. MACAULAY, C.S. LEWIS, GEORGE R. COFFMAN, J.A.W. BENNETT, DEREK PEARSALL, ARNOBESCH, GEORGE. D. ECONOMOU, GOTÖZ SCHMITZ, DENISE N. BAKER, A.J. MINNIS and KURT OLSSON
