In the following essay, Baker vindicates Gower's characterization of the allegorical figure Genius in the Confessio Amantis, which has often been viewed as inconsistent and faulty.
The alleg...
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In the following essay, Schutz examines Gower's use of metaphors of sight, vision, and understanding in the Confessio Amantis.
John Gower's Confessio Amantis fits a number of medieval...
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In the following essay, Burke discusses the surprising absence of “negative female stereotypes” in the Confessio Amantis.
It is readily apparent to readers of the Confessio Amantis, e...
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In the following essay, Minnis applies the medieval concept of “ethical poetry” to the Confessio Amantis.
Chaucer was paying Gower a considerable compliment when he dubbed him ‘...
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In the following essay, Runacres investigates the “fruitful balance between pleasurable instruction and instructive pleasure” in the Confessio Amantis.
At the beginning of the ‘...
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In the following essay, Olsson interprets the Confessio Amantis as a compilation, in which Gower assembled materials from a wide variety of sources and organized them to create new or expanded meaning...
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In the following essay, Peck examines the Confessio Amantis in terms of medieval theories of perception and representation.
Oure wit may not stiȝe vnto the contemplacioun of vnseye thinges b...
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In the following essay, Chandler stresses remembrance as a unifying theme of the Confessio Amantis.
A new focus of attention informs recent discussion about the artistic unity of Confessio Amantis....
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In the following essay, Watt asserts the presence of subversive homosocial, homoerotic, and transgender elements in the Confessio Amantis, placing particular emphasis on the motif of cross-dressing fe...
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In the following essay, Rytting discusses Gower's depiction of marriage and its attendant virtues in the poetic tales of the Confessio Amantis.
John Gower's Confessio Amantis is many ...
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In the following essay, Peck studies the “fascination with the mind's capacity to abstract signs from things” Gower demonstrates in the Confessio Amantis.
Oure wit may not sti&...
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In the following essay, Grady questions traditional estimations of Gower's “In Praise of Peace” as Lancastrian propaganda, claiming instead that the poem features a complex unders...
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In the following essay, Olsson explores the dynamics of power and love traced in the intimate personal relationships Gower treats in the Confessio Amantis and Mirour de l'Omme.
Recent discus...
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In the following essay, McKinley regards Book Seven of the Confessio Amantis as a digressive “excursus on ideal kingship” that temporarily departs from the central theme of the poem in a...
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In the following essay, Echard examines the early practice of compiling tables of contents and glosses for the numerous manuscripts of the Confessio Amantis as establishing frames for reading and unde...
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In the following essay, Robins analyzes the intersection of narrative romance and moral exempla in the Confessio Amantis, studying this juxtaposition within the critical contexts of reader subjectivit...
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In the following essay, Schultz describes Gower's use of the metaphor of mirrored self-reflection in the Confessio Amantis in conjunction with the poem's themes of self-knowledge, self-d...
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Critical Essay by Denise N. Baker
