The allegory of love in Roman de la Rose

Title: The allegory of love in Roman de la Rose
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The allegory of love in Roman de la Rose
The Allegory of Love in Roman de la Rose The Romance of the Rose is an allegory of courtly society and courtly love. It is a narration of a love affair described through the device of dream vision. These two narrative devices (allegory and dream vision) provide the text with a form of authority and legitimacy. The narrative device of dream vision has the following functions in the text: (1) it allows the free play of …showed first 75 words of 535 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 535 total…love. In addition, his setting has a warmth and color that relieve The Romance of the Rose of the frigidity of abstractions. And lastly his use of allegory supplies a refinement sometimes lacking in explicit narrative. References: Delahoyde., Michael. http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/medieval/rose.html Dunn, Charles. The Romance of the Rose Horgan, Frances. The Romance of the Rose Lewis, C.S. The Allegory of Love Readings: The Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy

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