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"In Propria Persona": Artifice, Politics, and Propriety in John Gower's Confessio Amantis

Irvin, Matthew William (2009)

This dissertation examines the use of personae, the rhetorical artifices by which an author creates different voices, in John Gower's Confessio Amantis. I argue that the Confessio attempts to expose how discourses of sexual ...