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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829044603321

Autore

Heller-Roazen Daniel

Titolo

Fortune's faces : the Roman de la Rose and the poetics of contingency / / Daniel Heller-Roazen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-8018-8155-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Collana

Parallax

Disciplina

841/.1

Soggetti

Romance literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-200) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.