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Chapter 10 - Metalepsis and Allegory

The Unity of the Roman de la Rose

from Part III - Unfinished Business

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2020

By
Luciano Rossi
Edited by
Jonathan Morton  and
Marco Nievergelt
With
John Marenbon
Jonathan Morton
Affiliation:
Tulane University, Louisiana
Marco Nievergelt
Affiliation:
University of Warwick
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Summary

In the metalepsis situated at the centre of the text, the God of Love disorients the reader with the revelation that the romance that the latter was sure of having read has not yet been written and that it will be the work of two authors of which the first is in danger of dying and the second has not yet been born. In the verses in question, which take their inspiration not only from ‘Parisian philosophy’ but also from the ‘legalists’ of Orléans and the teachings of Joachim of Fiore (by means of Gerard de Borgo San Donnino), an authorial hypostasis takes place (or a supposition according to Scholastic terminology), which is expressed through the triad ‘Guillaume de Lorris’ – ‘God of Love’ – ‘Jean Chopinel’, and which provides the romance’s underlying unity, its allegorical mysteries, and its modalities of enunciation.

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MetalepsisparadoxallegoryunityOrleansParistemporality
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The ‘Roman de la Rose' and Thirteenth-Century Thought , pp. 210 - 232
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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