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Title: The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume De Lorris, Jean De Meun, Frances Horgan, De Lorris Guillame ISBN: 0-19-283948-9 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: rosa
Comment: I really like this book because it is a romance book and i love all romance books. I really like books that are writen in the old ages. I think if a person likes to just read books they should read Romance of the Rose.
Rating: 5
Summary: Allegory continued
Comment: The Romance of the Rose is the famous and much discussed 13th century allegorical romance. It consists of two parts of unequal length-- the first shorter part by Guillaume de Lorris and the second longer part continued 40 years after de Lorris' death by Jean de Meun. Throughout the medieval period, this was one of the most widely read book in the French language.
Scholars have rather endlessly debated how unified the allegory really is, and the trend recently seems to have shifted to seeing the two authors as less in opposition, and more composing a complete treatment of courtly Love.
For the casual (non-academic) reader like myself, the experience is rather less unified. The de Lorris section is quite lyrical and fits more with what I imagine an allegorical dream poem to be. When Idleness leads the dreamer into the garden of Diversion and when Love shoots him with the five deadly arrows that bind him to the Rose, the imagery is compelling and lovely.
On the other hand, the second part, while often *very* funny is much more obviously satirical with long digressions that focus more on social mores than on the world of the Dreamer as established in the first half. The effect is sort of like a serious and literary Spike Jones song-- which is not at all a bad thing.
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Title: The Art of Courtly Love by Andreas Capellanus, John Jay Parry ISBN: 0231073054 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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Title: Arthurian Romances (Penguin Classics) by Chretien De Troyes, William W. Kibler, Chretien de Troyes, Carleton W. Carroll ISBN: 0140445218 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Lais of Marie De France by Glyn S. Burgess, Keith Busby ISBN: 0140447598 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine De Pizan, Jeffrey Richards, Christine, Christine de Pizan, Earl Jeffrey Richards ISBN: 0892552301 Publisher: Persea Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Consolation of Philosophy (Penguin Classics) by Boethius, Victor Watts ISBN: 0140447806 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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