Constance and the World in Chaucer and Gower
- Author / Editor
- Wetherbee, Winthrop.
Constance and the World in Chaucer and Gower
- Published
- R. F. Yeager, ed. John Gower, Recent Readings (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University), pp. 65-93.
- Description
- The pattern of sustained allusion to Gower's "Confessio Amantis" provides an important index to the purpose of MLT. Gower communicates the horror of a moral void; the Man of Law inveighs against Canacee's sinfulness. Chaucer's tale ultimately "serves to expose the emptiness at the heart of the Man of Law's affirmation of order."
- Alternative Title
- John Gower, Recent Readings: Papers Presented at the Meetings of the John Gower Society at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1983-1988.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.