The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages : Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction /
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
1985.
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Table of 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.