Ovid and the Sentence of the "Confessio Amantis."
- Author/Editor
- Harder, Henry Louis.
- Title
- Ovid and the Sentence of the "Confessio Amantis."
- Published
- Harder, Henry Louis. "Ovid and the Sentence of the 'Confessio Amantis.'" Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Maryland, 1970. Dissertation Abstracts International 31.11 (1971): 6057A.
- Review
- Harder explores "Gower's treatment of the tales he took from Ovid . . . [to reveal] how Gower used his source in establishing the sentence of his tales." Treats Gower's Ovidian tales in the 'Confessio Amantis' sequentially, arguing that Gower "generally used" the ones "easily adaptable to his purpose . . . . But he made changes wherever necessary to establish his moral," recurrently "reduc[ing] the number of characters and events . . . us[ing] editorial narration to stress doctrine . . . and respond[ing] to certain elements of Ovid in a predictable pattern." Gower "is a capable story-teller." [eJGN 44.1]
- Date
- 1970
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis
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