| Description |
1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The argument of the book: medieval writing and modern theory -- The semiology of space in the Middle Ages: on manuscript painting, sacred architecture, scholasticism, and music -- The language of mythology: on medieval grammar and hermeneutics -- Dante's Liber occultorum and the structure of allegory in the Commedia -- The origin of language reconsidered: Chaucer's House of fame -- Problems of misreading: the "prologue" to The legend of good women -- Interpreting the "naked text" in the "general prologue" to The Canterbury tales -- Retrospect: on historical change |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-285) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast |
| Subject |
Learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500
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Transmission of texts.
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Books -- Europe -- History -- 400-1450
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Books -- History -- 400-1450.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Learning and scholarship -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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Civilization -- history
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Literature, Medieval -- history
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Books -- history
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Civilization, Medieval
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Books
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Learning and scholarship -- Medieval
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Literature, Medieval
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Transmission of texts
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Boeken.
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Cultuurgeschiedenis.
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
84023814 |
| ISBN |
9781501740718 |
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1501740717 |
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