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Hogarth: All human life is here ; For the critic William Hazlitt, Shakespeare was Hogarth's only rival as a portrayer of both the sublime and ridiculous. Tom Rosenthal previews next month's Tate Britain retrospective of this most English of artists
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William Hogarth (1697-1764) was baptised at St Bartholomew's
Church at Smithfield in the City of London, an appropriate beginning
for a quintessentially English artist. And that is probably the most
unambiguous aspect of a painter and a man for whom the word irony
might have been invented. The closest among all English painters to
that mythical beast, John Bull, would surely have relished the
arrival at Tate Britain of this wonderful retrospective of his major
works after a successful run at the Louvre in Paris. It contains
many iconic pictures which most of us can remember not just from ...
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Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun: Narcissus and Pygmalion.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review
; ...Near the beginning of the poem Guillaume de Lorris recounts Ovid's story of...order to make him more like Guillaume de Lorris' Narcissus. When Amant enters...Narcissus that is operative in Guillaume de Lorris's text at this point is collapsed...
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An allegorical mirror: the pool of Narcissus in Guillaume de Lorris' Romance of the Rose.
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review
; ...optical nerve and brain: Hunain's description of the eye's structure provides an important detail for our understanding of Guillaume's fountain, for it indicates that the crystals beneath the water, with their ability to receive color from the sun's...
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Pseudo-autobiography in the Fourteenth Century: Juan Ruiz Guillaume de Machaut, Jean Froissart and Geoffrey Chaucer.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...narrator of Le Roman de la Rose, when `Guillaume de Lorris' is specifically, and wrongly, named...cited is that following the end of the `Guillaume de Lorris' section and the naming of Guillaume and Jean de Meun as authors by Amor in...
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Ardis Butterfield. Poetry and Music in Medieval France from Jean Renart to Guillaume Machaut.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review
; ...Renart's Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Dole from the early decades...focus on the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris revised by Jean de Meun. Moreover...between Adam de la Halle and Guillaume de Machaut occur within a narrative...
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Reading the 'Rose:' literacy and the presentation of the 'Roman de la Rose' in medieval manuscripts.
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review
; ...the death of the first author, Guillaume de Lorris. Jean de Meun, speaking through...quotation of the last six verses of Guillaume's poem (vv. 10525-10530...10565-10566). Jean and Guillaume are also made to take their place...
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Akbari, Suzanne Conklin, Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Parergon
; ...of four medieval authors. In Guillaume de Lorris's Roman de la rose, Akbari...structure is compelling evidence that Guillaume's Roman de la rose is complete...contrast, Jean de Meun subsumes Guillaume's poem to his own ends, by...
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Internal Differences and Meanings in the Roman de la Rose.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...grounds. Kelly sees Jean's Rose as a recasting of Guillaume de Lorris's dream through the refracting mirrors of Ovid and Boethius, thereby undercutting Guillaume's courtly idealism. The result can be seen as a...
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Five Interpolated Romances from the Lancelot Compilation
Magazine article from: Arthuriana
; ...so rightly deserves, in the center of the field where the scholarly debate takes place. But, in spite of what Guillaume de Lorris says about them, we know 'qu'en songes/ n'a se fables non et menonges,' and the Middle Dutch texts have...
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Rethinking the 'Romance of the Rose': Text, Image, Reception.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...treating mediaeval and modern readings of the Roman de la Rose, divided among five sections: literary approaches to Guillaume de Lorris's Roman (I) and Jean de Meung's continuation (II), the iconographic tradition of the whole poem (III and...
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La Cort d' Amor: A Critical Edition.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...correct, then this poem is the earliest surviving vernacular narrative personification allegory, easily predating Guillaume de Lorris's Roman de la Rose. Bardell's edition is the first reliable and complete one of the poem, following the less...
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