Fortune's faces : the Roman de la Rose and the poetics of contingency

223 Pages·2003·0.83 MB·English

Fortune’s Faces
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Stephen G. Nichols, Gerald Prince, and Wendy Steiner
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Fortune’s Faces
The Roman de la Rose and
the Poetics of Contingency
Daniel Heller-Roazen
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Heller-Roazen, Daniel.
Fortune’s faces:the Roman de la Rose and the poetics of
contingency/Daniel Heller-Roazen.
p. cm.—(Parallax)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
 ---(alk. paper)
. Guillaume de Lorris, fl. . Roman de la Rose. . Jean
de Meun, d. .
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For my Mother and Father

L’inconstance du bransle divers de la fortune fait qu’elle nous doive
presenter toute espece de visages.
—Montaigne, Essais,1:33

Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Note on Citations xiii
Introduction: The Sense of a Book 
 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 
Conclusion: Diverse Verses 
Notes 
Works Cited 
Index 
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