Browsing English (Theses and Dissertations) by Subject "Medieval Literature"
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'The word this worldes cause entriketh': Negotiating Fallen Signs in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis argues that the Confessio Amantis is a study in the inadequacy of language and its constructs. It asserts that, like his fourteenth-century contemporary authors, Gower explores the mutable condition of language, ...