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

Rethinking the "Romance of the Rose" : : Text, Image, Reception / / ed. by Sylvia Huot, Kevin Brownlee.

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 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 celeb...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Badel, Pierre-Yves,
Baumgartner, Emmanuèle,
Brownlee, Kevin,
Fleming, John V.,
Harrison, Robert Pogue,
Hult, David F.,
Huot, Sylvia,
Nichols, Stephen G.,
Patterson, Lee,
Poel, Dieuwke E. van der,
Poirion, Daniel,
Uitti, Karl D.,
Walters, Lori,
HerausgeberIn:
Brownlee, Kevin,
Huot, Sylvia,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1992
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.) :; 11 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Rethinking the Rose
  • Part I. Reading The Rose: Guillaume de Lorris
  • 1.The Play of Temporalities; or, The Reported Dream of Guillaume de Lorris
  • 2. “Cele [qui] doit estre Rose Clamee” (Rose, Vv. 40–44): Guillaume’s Intentionality
  • 3. From Rhyme to Reason: Remarks on the Text of the Romance of the Rose
  • Part II. Reading the Rose: Jean de Meun
  • 4. Jean de Meun and the Ancient Poets
  • 5. Language and Dismemberment: Abelard, Origen, and the Romance of the Rose
  • Part III. The Illuminated Rose
  • 6. Ekphrasis, Iconoclasm, and Desire
  • 7. Illuminating the Rose: Gui de Mori and the Illustrations of MS 101 of the Municipal Library, Tournai
  • Part IV. The Reception of the Rose in France
  • 8. Authors, Scribes, Remanieurs: A Note on the Textual History of the Romance of the Rose
  • 9. Discourses of the Self: Christine de Pizan and the Romance of the Rose
  • 10. Alchemical Readings of the Romance of the Rose
  • Part V. The Reception of the Rose Outside France
  • 11. The Bare Essential: The Landscape of II Fiore
  • 12. A Romance of a Rose and Florentine: The Flemish Adaptation of the Romance of the Rose
  • 13. Feminine Rhetoric and the Politics of Subjectivity: La Vieille and the Wife of Bath
  • Appendix: Author Portraits and Textual Demarcation in Manuscripts of the Romance of the Rose
  • Index
  • Contributors

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