| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages) |
| Series |
Medieval cultures ; v. 28 |
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Medieval cultures ; v. 28.
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| Contents |
Preliminary; Incipit: A Fourteenth-Century Incipit; Initium: Incipits and the Intentions of Vernacular Writing; Exordium: Making Beginnings: Disposition and Inscription; Thema: The Book That Makes Itself; Origo: Genealogy: Engenderment and Digression; Conditora: The Archive of Grammar: Beginning and Documentary Remembrance; Principium: Beginning Perfection: The Theology of Inception; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In the first book to examine one of the most peculiar features of one of the greatest and most perplexing poems of England's late Middle Ages--the successive attempts of Piers Plowman to begin, and to keep beginning--D. Vance Smith compels us to rethink beginning, as concept and practice, in both medieval and contemporary terms |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-281) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Langland, William, 1330?-1400? Piers Plowman.
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Langland, William, 1330?-1400? -- Technique
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Langland, William, 1330?-1400? |
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Piers Plowman (Langland, William) |
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Christian poetry, English (Middle) -- History and criticism
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English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Rhetoric
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Openings (Rhetoric)
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Rhetoric, Medieval.
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Incipits.
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incipits.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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POETRY -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Christian poetry, English (Middle)
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Incipits
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Openings (Rhetoric)
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Rhetoric, Medieval
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Technique
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816692583 |
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0816692580 |
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