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The Poetic Voices of John Gower - Politics and Personae in the Confessio Amantis (Hardcover, New)
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The Poetic Voices of John Gower - Politics and Personae in the Confessio Amantis (Hardcover, New)
Series: Publications of the John Gower Society
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An examination of Gower's skilful deployment of personae in his
works, showing the parallels between the way he treats love, and
the way he treats politics. Gower's use of the persona, the figure
of the writer implicated in the text, is the main theme of this
book. While it traces the development of Gower's voice through his
major works, it concentrates on the dialogue of Amans and Genius in
the Confessio Amantis. It argues that Gower negotiates problems of
politics and problems of love by means of an analogy between
political ethics and the rules of fin amour; Amans and Genius are
both drawn from and occupied with amatory and ethical traditions,
and their discourse produces a series of attempts to find a
coherent and rational union of lover and ruler. The volume also
argues that Gower's goal is poetic as well as political: through
the personae, Gower's readers experience the pains and pleasures of
erotic and social love. Gower's personae voice potential responses
to exemplary experience, prompting readers to feel and to judge,
and moving them to become better lovers and better rulers. Gower's
analogy between fin amour and politics brings the affects of the
lover to the action of government, and suggests for both love and
rule the moderation that brings peace and joy. Matthew W. Irvin is
Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Chair of the
Medieval Studies Program at Sewanee.
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