{"id":181,"date":"2016-09-20T21:58:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T04:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301\/?p=181"},"modified":"2016-09-20T21:58:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T04:58:34","slug":"romance-of-the-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/2016\/09\/20\/romance-of-the-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Romance of the Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_261\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_4425\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261\" class=\"wp-image-261\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-7.17.44-PM-220x300.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-09-21-at-7-17-44-pm\" width=\"300\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-7.17.44-PM-220x300.png 220w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-7.17.44-PM.png 503w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">British Library MS Harley 4425 f. 7r (c. 1490-1500): the beginning of the dream&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>1. The <em><a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roman de la Rose Digital Library<\/a> <\/em>(Johns Hopkins U &amp; Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale de France). We will be referring to this site in class throughout the <em>Rose <\/em>part of this course.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#rose\" target=\"_blank\">introduction \/ overview<\/a> of the <em>Rose<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#sections\" target=\"_blank\">narrative sections<\/a> (nearly a plot summary) with each segment linking to the available manuscript scans<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">alternative routes to synopsis by <a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#illustrations\" target=\"_blank\">illustration<\/a>; see also <a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.org\/#chars\" target=\"_blank\">character names<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">the project&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/romandelarose.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Official Blog<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2. The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bl.uk\/digitisedmanuscripts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">British Library Medieval Manuscripts Blog<\/a> &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bl.uk\/.services\/blog\/6a00d8341c464853ef0120a85f8cec970b\/search?filter.q=Roman+de+la+rose&amp;search.x=20&amp;search.y=20&amp;search=Search\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Roman de la rose&#8221; search<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. A <a href=\"https:\/\/metametamedieval.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/rose-map.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reader&#8217;s guide \/ map \/ plot summary<\/a> (Per Nykrog, in French)<\/p>\n<p>4. Reading-guides highlighting some key passages, from <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl302\/\">MDVL 302 &#8220;CRITICISM&#8221;<\/a>:\u00a0different course, topic, and angle of approach:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl302\/files\/2012\/01\/mdvl302-wk3-reading.pdf\">Reading guide \/ guided reading (1)<\/a>: including Reason<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl302\/files\/2012\/01\/mdvl302-wk4-reading.pdf\">Reading-guide \/ guided reading (2)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl302\/schedule\/1-rose\/\" target=\"_blank\">Old lecture-notes from MDVL 302 (2012)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">5. Chaucer, <em>The Romaunt of the Rose <\/em>(he did a partial translation\/version)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">1911 illustrated ed. c\/o Project Gutenberg and U of Toronto:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/romauntofroseren00chauuoft\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/romauntofroseren00chauuoft\/romauntofroseren00chauuoft.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/romauntofroseren00chauuoft\" target=\"_blank\">assorted other file formats<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">the <em>Riverside Chaucer<\/em>, ed. Benson (3rd ed. 1987 &amp; various subsequent reprints):<br \/>\nThis is the principal current edition. The printed version is in UBC and other Vancouver libraries, available in good bookstores, &amp; second-hand copies easily obtainable (and cheap, albeit often because heavily used).<br \/>\nAn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/riverside-chaucer\/oclc\/29608601?referer=di&amp;ht=edition\" target=\"_blank\">electronic version<\/a> of this edition exists (1992), but alas, it is not free but by subscription, and UBC library does not have a licence for it. O&#8217;Brien promises to ask\/beg\/plead for UBC to buy it.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>6. Some secondary reading:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the &#8220;Introduction&#8221; to your edition (ix-xxii)<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Kay, <i>The <\/i>Romance of the Rose\u00a0(London: Grant &amp; Cutler, 1995): short (under 100 pages) and succinct<\/li>\n<li>Sylvia Huot, <i>The <\/i>Romance of the Rose<i> and its Medieval Readers <\/i>(Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1993)<\/li>\n<li>Sylvia Huot &amp; Kevin Brownlee (eds.), <i>Rethinking the <\/i>Romance of the Rose<i>: Text, Image, Reception <\/i>(Philadelphia: U Pennsylvania P, 1992)<\/li>\n<li>Much has been written about the<i>\u00a0Romance of the Rose. <\/i>It was one of the most-read and most influential texts in medieval Europe, was one of the few medieval romances to be read continuously between then and now, and has been a regular subject of editions throughout post-medieval times (&#8220;modern,&#8221; post-modern, etc.). Here is a selection:<a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.slu.edu\/c.php?g=185811&amp;p=1228227\" target=\"_blank\"> Saint Louis University library research guide on the <em>Rose<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>You are now part of this collective, community, and continuum of readers: welcome!<\/li>\n<li>Here is a baker&#8217;s dozen of classic <i>Rose <\/i>scholar\u00a0names to look out for if you are doing an <a href=\"http:\/\/resources.library.ubc.ca\/?searchtype=keywords&amp;search=MLA+international+bibliography\" target=\"_blank\">MLA Bibliography<\/a>\u00a0search:<br \/>\nHeather Arden<br \/>\nSuzanne Akbari<br \/>\nR. Howard Bloch<br \/>\nKevin Brownlee<br \/>\nJohn V. Fleming<br \/>\nDavid Hult<br \/>\nSylvia Huot<br \/>\nSarah Kay<br \/>\nDouglas Kelly<br \/>\nSharon Kinoshita<br \/>\nStephen G. Nichols<br \/>\nLori Walters<br \/>\nMichel Zink<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_262\" style=\"width: 494px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_4425\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262\" class=\"wp-image-262 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-7.18.36-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-09-21-at-7-18-36-pm\" width=\"484\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-7.18.36-PM.png 484w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-7.18.36-PM-219x300.png 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230; British Library Ms Harley 4425 again, f. 14v: in the company of fellow good readers<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The Roman de la Rose Digital Library (Johns Hopkins U &amp; Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale de France). We will be referring to this site in class throughout the Rose part of this course. introduction \/ overview of the Rose narrative sections<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/2016\/09\/20\/romance-of-the-rose\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1573970],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}