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The Romance of the rose and the making of fourteenth-century English literature / Philip Knox.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knox, Philip, 1988- author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--French influences.
- French literature--To 1500--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- Anglo-Norman literature--History and criticism.
- Anglo-Norman literature.
- Romances, Anglo-Norman--History and criticism.
- Romances, Anglo-Norman.
- English literature--Middle English.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230. Roman de la rose.
- Guillaume.
- Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230--Influence.
- Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230.
- Roman de la rose (Guillaume, de Lorris).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 296 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- This title provides a new account of the literary history of fourteenth-century England, arguing that many of this period's most distinctive literary experiments emerge through a productive dialogue with the 'Romance of the Rose', a jointly-authored medieval French poem.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Situating Fourteenth-Century Readers of the Rose
- Intertextuality and the `Protean Rose'
- The Rose in England and in Europe
- 1. Courtly Encounters
- Aristocratic Communities and the Rose in England
- Consensus and Dissent: Oton de Granson's Lai de desir en complainte and Chaucer's Prologue to The Legend of Good Women
- Debating the Rose across the Channel: Thomas Hoccleve and Christine de Pizan
- 2. Knowledge, Desire, Nature
- Reading Knowledge
- Reading and Writing the Order of Nature in the Rose
- `Who Can Give a Lover Any Law?': John Gower
- Nature, Art, and Deviance: Cleanness
- Envisioning Nature, Envisioning Knowledge: William Langland
- Nature and Dismemberment: Geoffrey Chaucer
- 3. Being a Poet
- Auctores and Poetae
- Le Testament Maistre Jehan de Meun: Satire, Moralism, and the Single-Author Codex
- Poetry and Self-Naming in the Rose
- Naming and Writing the Self in the Romaunt of the Rose
- Dead Poets: The House of Fame.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-288) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0192847171
- 9780192847171
- OCLC:
- 1273675765
- Publisher Number:
- 99991411568
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