Using Reason to Change Their Worlds: The Tale of Rosiphelee and the Tale of Alceone in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
- Author / Editor
- Bakalian, Ellen S.
Using Reason to Change Their Worlds: The Tale of Rosiphelee and the Tale of Alceone in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
- Published
- Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 82-112.
- Description
- By discussing the tales of Rosiphelee and Alceone from "Confessio Amantis," Bakalian exemplifies how Gower (in contrast to Chaucer) urges readers to improve their behavior through right reason and rejection of irresponsible passion.
- Alternative Title
- Standing in the Shadow of the Master?
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.