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

By: Sadlek, Gregory M, 1950-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2004Description: xii, 298 pSubject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Criticism and interpretation | Guillaume, de Lorris, fl. 1230. Roman de la rose | Alanus, de Insulis, d. 1202. De planctu naturae | Andre, le chapelain. De amore et amoris remedio | Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis | Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Ars amatoria | Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. -- Influence | Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism | Literature, Medieval -- Roman influences | Love in literature | Work in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809/.933543 LOC classification: PN682.L68 | S24 2004Online resources: Click to View
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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

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

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.