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T1 Text and gloss in Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Christine de Pizan's "Épître Othéa": vernacular "accessus"
A1 Ma, Ruen-chuan
A1 Filardo Llamas, Laura
A1 Gastle, Brian
A1 Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Marta María
A1 Sáez Hidalgo, Ana
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Filología Inglesa
AB 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.
SN 0210-9689
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17257
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17257
LA spa
NO ES: Revista de filología inglesa, 2012, N.33, pags.17-28
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-nov-2024