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Fortune's faces : the Roman de la Rose and the poetics of contingency / Daniel Heller-Roazen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heller-Roazen, Daniel.
- Series:
- Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
- Parallax
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romance-language literature.
- Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230. Roman de la rose.
- Guillaume.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Considered in its full poetic and philosophical dimensions, the Romance of the Rose thus acquires an altogether new significance in the history of literature: it appears as a work that incessantly explores its own capacity to be other than it is.
- Contents:
- Inventio linguae : the language of contingency
- The nameless lover, or the contingent subject
- Fortune, or the contingent figure
- Through the looking-glass : the knowledge of contingency.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-200) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-8155-2
- OCLC:
- 923191928
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