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Latin Poetic Irony in the Roman de La Rose

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The Roman de la Rose is a work of ambivalence and paradox: recurring images and topics are handled in a contradictory manner by different speakers. These apparent oppositions spring, as Dr. Pelen argues in this important study, from an underlying structure of irony deriving from the poem's Latin models.

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Latin Poetic Irony in the Roman de la Rose 1987, Francis Cairns Publications

ISBN-13: 9780905205328

Hardcover