Magister Amoris: The Roman de la Rose and Vernacular Hermeneutics

ISBN-13: 9780198187547 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 368 str.

A. J. Minnis; Alastair Minnis

Opis

The Roman de la Rose was a major bestseller--largely due to its robust treatment of "natural" sexuality. This study concentrates on the ways in which Jean de Meun, in imitation of Ovid, assumed the mock-magisterium (or mastership) of love. Alastair J. Minnis considers allegorical versus literalistic expression in the poem, Jean's provocative use of plain and sometimes obscene language, the challenge of its homosocial and perhaps even homoerotic constructions, and the problematic translation of literary authority from Latin into the vulgar tongue.

Recenzje

The difficulty of the material is offset by the author's engaging and accessible style and his ready sense of humour ... The unfamiliarity of most of the texts discussed is countered by his generosity with summary and explication, and his considerate translation of all quotations in medieval languages ... offers copious resources that will nourish much further discussion and debate about medieval vernacular poetics.