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Situating the Romance of the Rose at the intersection of medieval literature and philosophy, Heller-Roazen shows how the thirteenth-century work invokes and radicalizes two classical and medieval traditions of reflection on language and contingency: that of the Provencal, French, and Italian love poets, who sought to compose their "verses of pure nothing" in a language Dante defined as "without grammar," and that of Aristotle's discussion of "future contingents" as it was received and refined in the logic, physics, theology, and epistemology of Boethius, Abelard, Albert the Great, and Thomas Aquinas. Through a close analysis of the poetic text and a detailed reconstruction of the logical and metaphysical concept of contingency, Fortune's Faces charts the transformations that literary structures (such as subjectivity, autobiography, prosopopoeia, allegory, and self-reference) undergo in a work that defines itself as radically contingent.
- Binding Others
- Author/s Heller-Roazen, Daniel
- ISBN13 9780801871917
- ISBN10 0801871913
- Pages 205
- Published 2003
- Language English
Fortune's faces: the "Roman de la Rose" and the poetics of contingency
- Author Daniel Heller-Roazen
- Publisher JOHNS HOPKINS U.P.
- ISBN 9780801871917