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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages : Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction / Jesse Gellrich.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1987Description: 1 online resource (294 p.) : 9 b&w halftonesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501740718
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 002.0902 19
LOC classification:
  • Z6
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- [1] The Argument of the Book : Medieval Writing and Modern Theory -- [2] The Semiology of Space in the Middle Ages: On Manuscript Painting, Sacred Architecture, Scholasticism, and Music -- [3] The Language of Mythology : On Medieval Grammar and Hermeneutics -- [4] Dante's Liber Occultorum and the Structure of Allegory in the Commedia -- [5] The Origin of Language Reconsidered : Chaucer's House of Fame -- [6] Problems of Misreading: The "Prologue" to The Legend of Good Women -- [7] I nterpreting the "Naked Text" in the "General Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales -- [8] Retrospect: On Historical Change -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: This book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights of such thinkers as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and Derrida to explore the continuity of medieval ideas about speaking, writing, and texts.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- [1] The Argument of the Book : Medieval Writing and Modern Theory -- [2] The Semiology of Space in the Middle Ages: On Manuscript Painting, Sacred Architecture, Scholasticism, and Music -- [3] The Language of Mythology : On Medieval Grammar and Hermeneutics -- [4] Dante's Liber Occultorum and the Structure of Allegory in the Commedia -- [5] The Origin of Language Reconsidered : Chaucer's House of Fame -- [6] Problems of Misreading: The "Prologue" to The Legend of Good Women -- [7] I nterpreting the "Naked Text" in the "General Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales -- [8] Retrospect: On Historical Change -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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This book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights of such thinkers as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and Derrida to explore the continuity of medieval ideas about speaking, writing, and texts.

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