Amoral Gower: Language, Sex, and Politics
- Author / Editor
- Watt, Diane
Amoral Gower: Language, Sex, and Politics
- Published
- Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
- Physical Description
- xviii, 219 pp.
- Series
- Medieval Cultures, no. 38.
- Description
- Reads John Gower's Confessio Amantis as a work that "encourages its audience to take risks in interpretation, to experiment with meaning, and to offer individualistic readings." The work pursues a "negative critique of ethical poetry" and enables important engagements with complexities of language, sex, and politics. Recurrent references to Chaucer indicate that the two poets shared a common audience, competed with each other, and explored "ethical ambiguities" in different ways.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.