Narrative Models: The Structure of the Major Works of Robert Mannyng and John Gower.
- Author/Editor
- Higgins, Richard Ian.
- Title
- Narrative Models: The Structure of the Major Works of Robert Mannyng and John Gower.
- Published
- Higgins, Richard Ian. "Narrative Models: The Structure of the Major Works of Robert Mannyng and John Gower." Ph.D. Dissertation. Brunel University, 1993. Index to Theses, with Abstracts: Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland 43.3 (1994), no. 5257.
- Review
- "This study concentrates on the major works of Robert Mannyng and John Gower and, without making any specific links between the two writers, investigates some of the devices used to make their long poems cohere . . . . The Introduction examines some forms of manuscript layout used to analyse and represent the constituent parts of an argument or narrative: the 'arbor' and its branches, the 'species' or genealogy, and the use of marginal commentary to modify or interpret a text . . . . Chapter Two demonstrates the flexibility of the manual form, with reference to 'Handlyng Synne . . . , elaborated upon with regard to the 'Confessio Amantis,' and Gower is shown to display a nascent sense of individuality fostered by penitential practice to focus his morality upon the conscience of his reader. The next three chapters deal with the 'Mirour de l'Omme' and 'Vox Clamantis' and their contexts. Society, in the form of the estates, and morality, the Virtues and Vices and 'species' thereof, supply the structural models for much of these works. The final chapter examines the proliferation of prophecies at the time of Gower's 'Cronica Tripertita,' and suggests that he used these as models to create a justification of Bolingbroke's rise to the throne."
- Date
- 1993
- Gower Subjects
- Style, Rhetoric, and Versification
Confessio Amantis
Mirour de l'Omme (Speculum Meditantis)
Vox Clamantis
Chronica Tripertita