Sarah Roche-Mahdi translated a poem in this genre that has become the subject of a growing body of gender-theoretical readings due to its depiction of a girl raised as a boy named Silence. A satire titled for this genre is the source of the phrase “curry favor” and follows the rise to power of a fallow-colored horse. In a poem titled for this genre, a crowned woman descends from her tower to give a 3,000-line lecture to a companion of Fair Welcome who is obsessed with the image he saw in the (*) fountain that Narcissus drowned in. A poem in this genre gives its name to the 12-syllable alexandrine line. A poem titled for this genre is set in a walled garden and was the subject of a querelle in which Christine de Pizan attacked its misogyny. For 10 points, what medieval French genre of narrative verse titles Guillaume de Lorris (“ghee-YOHM duh lor-EESE”) and Jean de Meun’s dream vision poem about a rose? ■END■
ANSWER: roman [or romance; accept Roman de Silence, Roman de la Rose, or Roman d’Alexandre, Roman de Fauvel, or Alexander Romances]
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