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

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Autore principale: Gellrich, Jesse M., 1942- (Autore)
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1985.
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Sommario:
  • 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.