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The allegory of love in Roman de la Rose
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 00:19:03
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 2 pages (535 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 2 pages (535 words)
The Allegory of Love in Roman de la Rose
The Romance of the Rose is an allegory of courtly society and courtly love. It is a narration of a love affair described through the device of dream vision. These two narrative devices (allegory and dream vision) provide the text with a form of authority and legitimacy.
The narrative device of dream vision has the following functions in the text: (1) it allows the free play of …
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…love. In addition, his setting has a warmth and color that relieve The Romance of the Rose of the frigidity of abstractions. And lastly his use of allegory supplies a refinement sometimes lacking in explicit narrative.
References:
Delahoyde., Michael. http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/medieval/rose.html
Dunn, Charles. The Romance of the Rose
Horgan, Frances. The Romance of the Rose
Lewis, C.S. The Allegory of Love
Readings: The Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy
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