Rethinking the "Romance of the Rose" : Text, Image, Reception Paperback / softback
Edited by Kevin Brownlee, Sylvia Huot
Part of the The Middle Ages Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 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. 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 American and in Europe.
The volume will be of value to students and scholars of medieval literature, intellectual history, and art history.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 11 illus.
- Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
- Publication Date:01/09/1992
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- ISBN:9780812213959
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 11 illus.
- Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
- Publication Date:01/09/1992
- Category:
- ISBN:9780812213959
