Maria Wickert: Studies in John Gower

by Robert J. Meindl (Translator)

Overview

Studies in John Gower is a translation of Maria Wickert’s Studien zu John Gower, the book that began the modern study of the Vox Clamantis. It is a monograph in six chapters, the first five on various aspects of the Vox — textual development, the vision of the Peasants’ Revolt, influence of the medieval sermon, the open letter to Richard II, world view — and the sixth a penetrating study of Gower’s narrative technique in the Confessio Amantis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780866985413
Publisher:	ACMRS Press
Publication date:	11/15/2016
Series:	Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies , #486
Edition description:	1
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Robert J. Meindl is emeritus professor of English at California State University, Sacramento. His Tulane University dissertation (1965), directed by Robert M. Lumiansky, was a study of narrative technique in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis. In addition to translating Wickert and occasionally writing poetry, he has published essays on Old and Middle English literature, translated Latin verses by Hugo Grotius and John Barclay, and written a series of articles explicating the Vox Clamantis’ sixth book, a verse translation of which he has also contributed to the Gower Project Wiki Translation.

Table of Contents

Introduction

R. F. Yeager

Translator’s Note

Author’s Preface

1. The Text and Development of the Vox Clamantis 

2. The Vision of the Peasants’ Revolt

3. The Vox Clamantis and the Medieval Sermon

A. The Homilist and the Archer

B. The Topology of the Prologue

4. The Mirror for a Prince

5. Gower’s Sense of Order

6. Gower’s Narrative Technique

Bibliography