Rethinking the "Romance of the Rose" : Text, Image, Reception /

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The Romance of the Rose has been a controversial text since it was written in the thirteenth century. There is evidence for radically different readings as early as the first half of the fourteenth century. The text provided inspiration for both courtly and didactic poets. Some read it as a celebrat...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Huot, Sylvia, Brownlee, Kevin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Jean, > de Meun, > approximately 1240-approximately 1305.
Guillaume, > de Lorris, > epoque 1230. > Roman de la Rose.
Jean de Meun, > m. 1305? > Critique et interpretation.
Guillaume de Lorris, > epoque 1230 > Critique et interpretation.
Guillaume, > de Lorris, > active 1230. > Roman de la rose.
Jean, > de Meun, > approximately 1240-approximately 1305 > Criticism and interpretation.
Jean, > de Meun, > approximately 1240-approximately 1305? > Criticism and interpretation.
Roman de la rose (Guillaume, de Lorris)
Roman de la rose (Jean de Meun and Guillaume de Lorris)
Romances.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Love poetry, French.
Courtly love in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
POETRY > Continental European.
Roman courtois > Histoire et critique.
Amour courtois dans la litterature.
Manuscrits medievaux > France.
Litterature medievale > Influence française.
Poesie d'amour française > Histoire et critique.
Manuscripts, Medieval > France.
Romances > History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval > French influences.
Love poetry, French > History and criticism.
France.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The Romance of the Rose has been a controversial text since it was written in the thirteenth century. There is evidence for radically different readings as early as the first half of the fourteenth century. The text provided inspiration for both courtly and didactic poets. Some read it as a celebration of human love; others as an erudite philosophical work; still others as a satirical representation of social and sexual follies. On one hand it was praised as an edifying treatise, on the other condemned as lascivious and misogynistic. Over the course of the last thirty years, the Rose has been the focus of some of the most intensive and innovative scholarship in the field of medieval studies. This activity has been characterized by a wide variety of critical approaches and methodologies. Two striking features emerge from the volume's survey of recent work on the Romance of the Rose. First, a wide range of disciplines have been involved: philosophy, theology, history, art history and codicology, and literature. This diversity is not only a function of the medieval work of art itself, but also the result of our postmodern focus on "culture" from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Second, the methodological heterogeneity of the past three decades of Rose research has been extremely fruitful. Kevin Brownlee and Sylvia Huot and the contributors to this volume - Pierre-Yves Badel, Emmanuele Baumgartner, John V. Fleming, Robert Pogue Harrison, David F. Hult, Stephen G. Nichols, Lee Patterson, Daniel Poirion, Karl D. Uitti, Dieuwke E. van der Poel, and Lori Walters - represent all the major areas of current work on the Romance of the Rose, both in America and in Europe. The volume will be of value to students and scholars of medieval literature, intellectual history, and art history.
Physical Description:1 online resource (400 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781512814903

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