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Subject(s)

• Romance literature [Browse]
• Guillaume de Lorris fl. 1230—Roman de la rose [Browse]

Series

• Parallax (Baltimore, Md.) [More in this series]
• Parallax

Summary note

Considered in its full poetic and philosophical dimensions, the Romance of the Rose 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.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-200) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• 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.

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ISBN

0-8018-8155-2

OCLC

• 923191928
• 70735820

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