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Studying Othon de Grandson’s dream garden in dialogue with Guillaume de Lorris’s Roman de la Rose, Jane Taylor, in this chapter, argues that the inhabitants of Othon’s garden serve a very different purpose than Guillaume’s allegories. With Othon’s dreaming “I” indistinguishable from his writing “I,” his encounters in the dream garden offer him the chance to interact with his own potential selves. Instead of fragmented qualities of the dreamer (as is the case in the Rose), here the characters in the garden represent projections of who the dreamer could be. The chapter contends that, thanks to the Rose’s influence, Othon’s choice to humanize the garden’s inhabitants renders them strange to the audience. With Othon’s series of potential selves, the “pseudo-autobiography” is an act of self-scrutiny as the poet tries to experience his self as “othered.” |
