Fortune's Faces: The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 11, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780801871917
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Prose & writers: classical, early & medieval; General; Roman de la Rose; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; fl. 1230; Semiotics & Theory; European - French; Poetry; Guillaume; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Guillaume,; Philosophy; de Lorris,; fl. 1230.
First sentence: Among its collection of French manuscripts, the National Library of Paris possesses an early-fourteenth-century codex containing the text of a poem divided in two parts.