Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry
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Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry by James Simpson
This study examines two great poems of the later medieval period, the Latin philosophical epic, Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus (1181-3), and John Gower's English poem, the Confessio Amantis (1390-3). James Simpson locates these works in a cultural context dominated by two kinds of literary humanism, in which the concept of self is centered in the intellect and the imagination respectively, and shows the very different modes of thought that lie behind their conceptions of selfhood and education.
'The originality of the juxtaposition is one measure of the provocativeness and occasional brilliance of Simpson's vigorous and ambitious new study, which offers radically novel readings of both poems at the same time that it draws them together in an intriguing exploration of the nature of the humanist poetics of the Middle Ages' John Gower Newsletter
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521471817 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521471818 |
| Title | Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry |
| Author | James Simpson |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Medieval Literature |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1995-04-20 |
| Number of pages | 334 |
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