Introduction
- The introduction addresses the combination of allegory and the first-person narrative form. This combination, which would prove extremely successful as a template in the following decades, seems to have appeared for the first time shortly after 1200. Not long afterward, the Roman de la Rose was the first text to combine the use of the vernacular, the first person, and allegoricity with courtly tropes. This text stands at the beginning of the impressive history of the “family of texts.” The introduction provides an overview of the main characteristics of this family and text types belonging to it: debates, dream allegories, and autobiographical texts, by integrating important results of the case studies presented in the volume.
| Author details: | Katharina PhilipowskiORCiDGND, Julia RüthemannGND |
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| URL: | https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/potsdamuni/reader.action?docID=30189190 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813069517.003.0001 |
| ISBN: | 978-0-81306-751-3 |
| ISBN: | 978-0-81306-951-7 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Allegory and the poetic self : first-person narration in late medieval literature |
| Subtitle (English): | allegory and the poetic self : first-person narration in late medieval literature |
| Publisher: | University Press of Florida |
| Place of publishing: | Gainesville |
| Publication type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2022/11/15 |
| Publication year: | 2022 |
| Release date: | 2024/07/05 |
| Tag: | Roman de la Rose; allegory; courtly tropes; family of texts; first-person narrative; the I |
| Number of pages: | 23 |
| First page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 23 |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Germanistik |
| DDC classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| License (German): |  Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
