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Gower's poetics on the edge: cracks and fissures

  • Autores: Malte Urban
  • Localización: ES: Revista de filología inglesa, ISSN 0210-9689, Nº. Extra 33, 1, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Gower in context(s) scribal, linguistic, literary and socio-historical readings / Laura Filardo Llamas (ed. lit.), Brian Gastle (ed. lit.), Marta María Gutiérrez Rodríguez (ed. lit.), Ana Sáez Hidalgo (ed. lit.)), págs. 155-170
  • Idioma: inglés
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    • This essay examines Gower's oft-discussed flexible or situational ethics with a focus on the way in which he positions his poems, especially the Confessio Amantis between several different elements. His multi-linguality has concerned readers for a long time, as have his idea of the "middle weie" and, more recently, the way in which he does not offer an overall fixed moral sense but rather focuses on the contradictions inherent in the human condition. The central thesis of the essay is that Gower uses all of these elements to create a poetic that is placed on the edge rather than in a commonplace centre. It is here that we can see cracks and fissures emerge in Gower's work, and it is here that we can begin to better understand his poetics.


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