Fortune's Faces: The 'Roman de la Rose' and the Poetics of Contingency.(Book Review)

The Modern Language Review | July 1, 2005| | Copyright

Fortune's Faces: The 'Roman de la Rose' and the Poetics of Contingency. By DANIEL HELLER-ROAZEN. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2003. xvi+206 pp. 33.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8081-7191-3.

This informative book addresses an aspect of the Roman de la Rose that has received little attention: its treatment of Fortune, necessity, and contingency. The opening chapter provides a survey of philosophical treatments of these themes, examining such writers as Aristotle, Boethius, Abelard, Albert the Great, and Dante. With that background in place ...

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