Idleness working : the discourse of love's labor from Ovid through Chaucer and Gower / Gregory M. Sadlek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sadlek, Gregory M., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230. Roman de la rose.

Guillaume.

Alanus, de Insulis, -1202. De planctu naturae.

Alanus.

Andreas, Capellanus. De amore.

Andreas.

Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis.

Gower, John.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ars amatoria.

Ovid.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Influence.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Literature, Medieval--Roman influences.

Love in literature.

Work in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-281) and indexes.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8132-1652-4

OCLC:

820009910