Fortune's Faces: The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency

by Daniel Heller-Roazen

Arguably the single most influential literary work of the European Middle Ages, the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun has traditionally posed a number of difficulties to modern critics, who have viewed its many interruptions and philosophical discussions as signs of a lack of formal organization and a characteristically medieval predilection for encyclopedic summation. In Fortune's Faces, Daniel Heller-Roazen...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801871913
• ISBN13: 9780801871917
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.4"