CONGRESS CANCELED Gower's Spaces
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Critical work on John Gower in recent years has sought to move him out of his traditional categorization as a poet of the political moment, commenting on events of his day often with a critical eye, and more toward understanding Gower as a poet who is responding as much to space as to time. Gower's construction of place and space, such as the barge traveling down the Thames that he shares with Richard II, reflects a highly cognitive relationship to the literary construction of fictive locations in which he situates narratives. Papers in this panel address both real and imaginative spaces in Gower’s works. Brian Gastle
CONGRESS CANCELED Gower's Spaces
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Critical work on John Gower in recent years has sought to move him out of his traditional categorization as a poet of the political moment, commenting on events of his day often with a critical eye, and more toward understanding Gower as a poet who is responding as much to space as to time. Gower's construction of place and space, such as the barge traveling down the Thames that he shares with Richard II, reflects a highly cognitive relationship to the literary construction of fictive locations in which he situates narratives. Papers in this panel address both real and imaginative spaces in Gower’s works. Brian Gastle