2000
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198187301.001.0001
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Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition

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“…Winthrop Wetherbee’s contribution to R. F. Yeager’s 1991 Chaucer and Gower: Difference, Mutability, Exchange , for example, examines both English poets’ discourse of authority in relation to the allegories of the Rose and Boethius. Hugh White’s 2000 Nature, Sex and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition also compares the influence of the Rose on Gower and Chaucer, returning again to the realm of personification studies and characterizing Gower as better reconciled to the Rose ’s depiction of a problematic Lady Nature. The first international meeting of the John Gower Society, held in 2008, bodes well for an increase in scholarly attention to all aspects of Gower’s works, including Gower’s relation to the Rose .…”
Section: Middle English Poetry and `Rose' Reception In The Age Of Chamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Winthrop Wetherbee’s contribution to R. F. Yeager’s 1991 Chaucer and Gower: Difference, Mutability, Exchange , for example, examines both English poets’ discourse of authority in relation to the allegories of the Rose and Boethius. Hugh White’s 2000 Nature, Sex and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition also compares the influence of the Rose on Gower and Chaucer, returning again to the realm of personification studies and characterizing Gower as better reconciled to the Rose ’s depiction of a problematic Lady Nature. The first international meeting of the John Gower Society, held in 2008, bodes well for an increase in scholarly attention to all aspects of Gower’s works, including Gower’s relation to the Rose .…”
Section: Middle English Poetry and `Rose' Reception In The Age Of Chamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Again Fuller reads as if the "actual discourse" of music theory takes place in a hermetically sealed world of its own. 31 Nature functions as a moral middle term in so far as it can be less valued compared to art (which requires human reason); see White (2000). Nevertheless the phrase "against nature" is always negative.…”
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“…If we are wrong about what people think about Nature, we will be hopelessly wrong about what they think – and feel – full stop. (White 2000, p. 2)…”
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“… Economou (1972, p. 2). In 2000, Hugh White added to Economou's study in his Nature, Sex and Goodness in the Medieval Literary Tradition by considering Natura in the tradition of English vernacular literature. He concludes that nature did not indicate how humans regarded their physicality and ‘situated‐ness’ in time and place.…”
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