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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Roman de la rose"”.
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The Roman de la rose : textual, codicological and iconographical aspects of MS. Grey 4c12
This study involves an examination of one particular Old French illuminated secular manuscript, nanlely MS Grey 4 c 12, a fourteenth century copy of the poem Le Roman de la Rose. It attempts to understand the relationship between its illumination and the written text and to describe the unique …
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A feminist reading of la Vieille's speech in Jean de Meun's portion of Le roman de la rose
This dissertation undertakes to produce a close reading of la Vieille’s speech in Jean de Meun’s portion of Le roman de la rose. This speech has been traditionally interpreted as ironic, but this analysis seeks to incorporate the work of feminist critics as well as a relatively new area of research …
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Time, consciousness and narrative play in late Medieval secular dream poetry and framed narratives
This thesis considers time and narrative play in dream poems and framed narratives. It begins with a chapter on the history of time perceptions and time-telling, and explores how ideas about time influenced medieval writers. It also surveys some modern views on the history of time-measurement a nd …
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"In Propria Persona": Artifice, Politics, and Propriety in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
… attempts to expose how discourses of sexual desire alienate subjects from their proper place in the political world, and produce artificial personae that only appear socially engaged. The first three chapters consider the creation of the personae in the context of medieval Aristotelian …
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Das Andere Schreiben : Satire gegen die Frau und gegen die Ehe als Schreibmodell in lateinischen und altfranzösischen Texten des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts
… which has been the object of controversial debate in the general theory of genre as well as in the history of medieval literature. The inquiry crosses the boundaries of Romance and Latin Philology and shows that, especially in the field of satirical and didactic literature, close …
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Healing leaves
Medieval French literature provides the modern researcher with references to the healing arts in many passages that are incorporated into prose or poetic works. Because there was no clear separation of the genres into modern classifications, references to treatment of sicknesses of body, mind or …
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Grammatical Gender and Human Differences in Literature: France and England, 1100-1300
This thesis argues that the modern concept of ‘gender’ as a fact of social organisation and an aspect of individual identity is the metaphorisation of a grammatical concept, and that this metaphor has a history. A major inflection point in this history is the period between 1100 and 1300, when the …
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Suspended Endings: The Mechanics of Medieval Continuation in the Perceval Continuations
… – but it is one which does not know any precise definition. Despite the existence of important texts which take the form of what we nominally call ‘Continuation’, such as Le Roman de la Rose, Le Chevalier de la Charrette and of course the Perceval Continuations, to date no work exists which …
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The Pastoral Image: Guillaume de Deguileville’s Spiritual Pedagogy in the Pèlerinage Allegories
This thesis examines the Cistercian monk Guillaume de Deguileville’s three allegories: the Pèlerinage de vie humaine (1330 and 1355), the Pèlerinage de l’âme (1355), and the Pèlerinage de Jesus-Christ (1358). The thesis analyses each of these allegories as dream visions filled with ethical and …