1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911009390303321

Autore

Nowlin Steele <1976->

Titolo

Chaucer, Gower, and the Affect of Invention / Steele Nowlin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus, [Ohio] : , : The Ohio State University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8142-7419-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 pages)

Collana

Interventions: new studies in medieval culture

Disciplina

821/.109

Soggetti

Affect (Psychology) in literature

Invention (Rhetoric)

English poetry - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Gooth yet alway under": invention as movement in The house of fame -- "Ryght swich as ye felten": aligning affect and invention in The legend of good women -- A thing so strange: macrocosmic emergence in the Confessio amantis -- "The cronique of this fable": transformative poetry and the chronicle form in the Confessio amantis -- Empty songs, mighty men, and a startled chicken: satirizing the affect of invention in fragment VII of the Canterbury tales -- From ashes ancient come: affective intertextuality in Chaucer, Gower, and Shakespeare.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Steele Nowlin examines the process of poetic invention as it is conceptualized and expressed in the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) and John Gower (ca.1330-1408).