Rethinking the "Romance of the Rose": Text, Image, Reception (The Middle Ages Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812213955 ISBN 13: 9780812213959

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Kevin Brownlee is Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania. Sylvia Huot is Professor of Medieval French Literature at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Pembroke College.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812213955
• ISBN 13: 9780812213959
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Brownlee Kevin, Huot Sylvia