Gower and the Heavens: the "Dull" and the Divine in "Confessio Amantis."
- Author/Editor
- Green, William.
- Title
- Gower and the Heavens: the "Dull" and the Divine in "Confessio Amantis."
- Published
- Green, William. "Gower and the Heavens: the 'Dull' and the Divine in 'Confessio Amantis'." In William Green, Daniel Helbert, and Noëlle Phillips, eds. Textual Traditions and Medieval Literary Culture: Essays in Honour of Siân Echard (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2025), pp. 133-51.
- Review
- Green takes up the problem of the purpose of Book VII often raised by readers of the 'Confessio' (including Tamara O'Callaghan, M.A. Manzalaoui, Elizabeth Porter, Seb Falk, and--obliquely--Siân Echard), and argues vigorously that we are in fact the problem, not Gower's text: "It is precisely in the alienness of the material that we perceive of as dull in which me might attempt instead to see medieval textual productions of the once-live objects that informed medieval subjectivities; it is in the boring that we might gain insight into the fundamental differences between our own modes of being and theirs" (138). [RFY. Copyright. John Gower Society. eJGN 44.1]
- Date
- 2025
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis