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Author Sadlek, Gregory M., 1950-

Title Idleness working : the discourse of love's labor from Ovid through Chaucer and Gower / Gregory M. Sadlek
Published Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 298 pages)
Contents 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
Summary "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. The study focuses on the evolution of the ideologically-saturated discourse of love's labor contained in these works and thus explores them in context of ancient and medieval theories of labor and leisure, which themselves are seen to evolve through the course of Western history. What emerges from this study is a fresh appreciation and deepened understanding of such well-known classics of love literature as Ovid's Ars amatoria, Andreas Capellanus' De amore, Alan of Lille's Complaint of Nature, Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun's Roman de la rose. John Gower's Confessio Amantis, and Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-281) and indexes
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Subject Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism and interpretation
Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230. Roman de la rose.
Alanus, de Insulis, -1202. De planctu naturae.
Andreas, Capellanus. De amore et amoris remedio
Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ars amatoria.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Influence
SUBJECT Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. fast
Guillaume De Lorris gnd
Alanus <ab Insulis> swd
Andreas <Capellanus> swd
Ovidius Naso, Publius. swd
Gower, John. swd
Ars amatoria (Ovid) fast
Confessio amantis (Gower, John) fast
De planctu naturae (Alanus, de Insulis) fast
Roman de la rose (Guillaume, de Lorris) fast
De amore et de amoris remedio. swd
Confessio amantis. swd
De planctu naturae. swd
Roman de la rose. swd
Subject Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval -- Roman influences
Love in literature.
Work in literature.
Laziness in literature.
Labor in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
Laziness in literature
Labor in literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature, Medieval
Literature, Medieval -- Roman influences
Love in literature
Work in literature
Rezeption
Liefde.
Arbeid.
Letterkunde.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003018202
ISBN 9780813216522
0813216524