The Personages in the Major Narrative Works of John Gower.
- Author/Editor
- Cowling, Samuel Taggart, III.
- Title
- The Personages in the Major Narrative Works of John Gower.
- Published
- Cowling, Samuel Taggart, III. The Personages in the Major Narrative Works of John Gower. Ph.D. Dissertation. Michigan State University, 1970. Freely accessible at https://d.lib.msu.edu/etd/39752; accessed October 6, 2022
- Review
- Discusses and categorizes characters according to "personation or figuration. Through personation a conceptual value is embodied in a personage. The most familiar form of this mode is personification, which Gower makes elaborate use of in" MO. "His delineation, however, of such personages as Genius and Amans in" CA "reveals quite clearly that personation is not always a matter of simple personification. Figuration begins with a particular person, whether historical or legendary. Through this mode, some kind of conceptual value becomes associated, even identified, with the personage. The rebels in the" VC "not only do monstrous deeds; they are monsters." [RFY1982; rev. MA]
- Date
- 1970
- Gower Subjects
- Style, Rhetoric, and Versification
Backgrounds and General Criticism
Mirour de l'Omme (Speculum Meditantis)
Vox Clamantis
Confessio Amantis