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Fortune's Faces: The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency by Daniel Heller-Roazen (Hardcover, 2003)

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Arguably the single most influential literary work of the European Middle Ages, the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun has traditionally posed a number of difficulties to modern critics, who have viewed its many interruptions and philosophical discussions as signs of a lack of formal organization and a characteristically medieval predilection for encyclopedic summation. In Fortune's Faces , Daniel Heller-Roazen calls into question these assessments, offering a new interpretation of the romance as a carefully constructed and far-reaching exploration of the place of fortune, chance, and contingency in literary writing. Situating the Romance of the Rose at the intersection of medieval literature and philosophy, Heller-Roazen shows how the 13th-century work invokes and radicalizes two classical and medieval traditions of reflection on language and contingency: that of the Provencal, French and Italian love poets, who sought to compose their verses of pure nothing in a language Dante defined as without grammar, and that of Aristotle's discussion of future contingents as it was received and refined in the logic, physics, theology and epistemology of Boethius, Abelard, Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas. Through a close analysis of the poetic text and a detailed reconstruction of the logical and metaphysical concept of contingency, the book charts the transformations that literary structures (such as subjectivity, autobiography, prosopopoeia, allegory and self-reference) undergo in a work that defines itself as radically contingent. Considered in its full poetic and philosophical dimensions, the work 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.

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Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13
9780801871917
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Book Title
Fortune's Faces: the Roman De La Rose and the Poetics of Contingency
Author
Daniel Heller-Roazen
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Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Popular Philosophy
Publication Year
2003
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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229mm
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152mm
Item Weight
431g

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Daniel Heller-Roazen
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Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society
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United States

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