Irony v. Paradox in the 'Confessio Amantis'
- Author / Editor
- Nicholson, Peter.
Irony v. Paradox in the 'Confessio Amantis'
- Published
- Elisabeth Dutton, with John Hines and R. F. Yeager, eds. John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 206-16.
- Description
- Nicholson asserts that critics' "willingness to detect irony at every turn" is appropriate in Chaucer studies, but not in Gower studies, arguing that paradox is a recurrent and sustained mode of thought and expression in Gower's "Confessio." Surveys examples of irony in Chaucer's works.
- Alternative Title
- John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.