Idleness working : the discourse of love's labor from Ovid through Chaucer and Gower / / Gregory M. Sadlek
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| Autore: |
Sadlek Gregory M. <1950->
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| Titolo: |
Idleness working : the discourse of love's labor from Ovid through Chaucer and Gower / / Gregory M. Sadlek
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (313 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 809/.933543 |
| Soggetto topico: | Literature, Medieval - History and criticism |
| Literature, Medieval - Roman influences | |
| Love in literature | |
| Work in literature | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-281) and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The discourse of love's labor and its cultural contexts -- Labor omnia vincit: Roman attitudes toward work and leisure and the discourse of love's labor in Ovid's Ars amatoria -- Noble servitium: aspects of labor ideology in the Christian middle ages and love's labor in the De amore of Andreas Capellanus -- Homo artifex: monastic labor ideologies, urban labor, and love's labor in Alan of Lille's De planctu naturae -- Repose travaillant: the discourse of love's labor in the Roman de la rose -- The vice of Acedia and the gentil occupacion in Gower's Confessio amantis -- Love's bysynesse in Chaucer's amatory fiction. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Inspired by the critical theories of M. M. Bakhtin, Idleness Working is a groundbreaking study of key works in the Western literature of love from Classical Rome to the late Middle Ages. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Idleness working |
| ISBN: | 0-8132-1652-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910974566403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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