INESCAPABLE ROSE: JEAN LE SENESCHAL'S "CENT BALLADES" AND THE ART OF CHEERFUL PARADOX

Taylor attempts to show that "Livre des cent ballades" was a collection of banal poems that is interestingly sophisticated if read dialectically. The current opinion of the work is much more negative.

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Published in:Medium aevum 1998-01, Vol.67 (1), p.60-84
Main Author: TAYLOR, JANE H. M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Deceit
Dialectic
Fountains
France
French speaking and English speaking literatures
French speaking literatures
History and sciences of litterature
History of literature
Literary criticism
Love
Love poetry
Loyalty oaths
Middle Ages
Narrators
Paradoxes
Poetry
Spiritual love
Treatises
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Summary:Taylor attempts to show that "Livre des cent ballades" was a collection of banal poems that is interestingly sophisticated if read dialectically. The current opinion of the work is much more negative.
ISSN:0025-8385
2398-1423
DOI:10.2307/43629959