 | Idleness Working: the Discourse of Love''s Labor from Ovid through Chaucer and Gower Subjects: Literature Medieval -- History and criticism; Literature Medieval -- Roman influences; Love in literature; Work in literature; Chaucer Geoffrey d. 1400 -- Criticism and interpretation; Guillaume de Lorris fl. 1230. Roman de la Rose; Alanus de Insul; Inspired by the critical theories of M. M. Bakhtin, Idleness Working is a groundbreaking study of key works in the Western literature of love from Classical Rome to the late Middle Ages. |
