Text and gloss in Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Christine de Pizan's "Épître Othéa": vernacular "accessus"

This paper considers how Gower's Confessio Amantis and Christine de Pizan's Épître Othéa function as vemacular accessus ad auctores, as critical introductions to the classical narratives that they repurpose as models of moral behavior. By examining these works, I investigate how the type o...

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Autores: Ma, Ruen-chuan, Filardo Llamas, Laura, Gastle, Brian, Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Marta María, Sáez Hidalgo, Ana
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Valladolid
Repositorio:UVaDOC. Repositorio Documental de la Universidad de Valladolid
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Acceso en línea:http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17257
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Filología Inglesa
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spelling Text and gloss in Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Christine de Pizan's "Épître Othéa": vernacular "accessus"Ma, Ruen-chuanFilardo Llamas, LauraGastle, BrianGutiérrez Rodríguez, Marta MaríaSáez Hidalgo, AnaFilología InglesaThis paper considers how Gower's Confessio Amantis and Christine de Pizan's Épître Othéa function as vemacular accessus ad auctores, as critical introductions to the classical narratives that they repurpose as models of moral behavior. By examining these works, I investigate how the type of learning associated with the study of Latin texts becomes an exemplum that inspires the development of the vernacular's literary capacities. A comparison of the two suggests that the former theorizes the vernacular's potential as a literary language to identify the interpretive skills that it still needs to acquire, while the latter demonstrates such an acquisition. Together, Gower and Christine demonstrate the rise of a more "learned" vernacular in the late Middle Ages, primed by skills taken from Latinate practices and ready to stake its claim on literary excellence.Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid2012info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17257ES: Revista de filología inglesareponame:UVaDOC. Repositorio Documental de la Universidad de Valladolidinstname:Universidad de ValladolidEspañolinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/oai:uvadoc.uva.es:10324/172572026-06-13T12:44:47Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Text and gloss in Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Christine de Pizan's "Épître Othéa": vernacular "accessus"
title Text and gloss in Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Christine de Pizan's "Épître Othéa": vernacular "accessus"
spellingShingle Text and gloss in Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Christine de Pizan's "Épître Othéa": vernacular "accessus"
Ma, Ruen-chuan
Filología Inglesa
title_short Text and gloss in Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Christine de Pizan's "Épître Othéa": vernacular "accessus"
title_full Text and gloss in Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Christine de Pizan's "Épître Othéa": vernacular "accessus"
title_fullStr Text and gloss in Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Christine de Pizan's "Épître Othéa": vernacular "accessus"
title_full_unstemmed Text and gloss in Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Christine de Pizan's "Épître Othéa": vernacular "accessus"
title_sort Text and gloss in Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Christine de Pizan's "Épître Othéa": vernacular "accessus"
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Ma, Ruen-chuan
Filardo Llamas, Laura
Gastle, Brian
Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Marta María
Sáez Hidalgo, Ana
author Ma, Ruen-chuan
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Filardo Llamas, Laura
Gastle, Brian
Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Marta María
Sáez Hidalgo, Ana
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Gastle, Brian
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Sáez Hidalgo, Ana
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author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Filología Inglesa
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description This paper considers how Gower's Confessio Amantis and Christine de Pizan's Épître Othéa function as vemacular accessus ad auctores, as critical introductions to the classical narratives that they repurpose as models of moral behavior. By examining these works, I investigate how the type of learning associated with the study of Latin texts becomes an exemplum that inspires the development of the vernacular's literary capacities. A comparison of the two suggests that the former theorizes the vernacular's potential as a literary language to identify the interpretive skills that it still needs to acquire, while the latter demonstrates such an acquisition. Together, Gower and Christine demonstrate the rise of a more "learned" vernacular in the late Middle Ages, primed by skills taken from Latinate practices and ready to stake its claim on literary excellence.
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