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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages

Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction

By: Jesse Gellrich

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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages

Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction

By: Jesse Gellrich

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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Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century

Oral Contexts of Writing in Philosophy, Politics, and Poetry

By: Jesse M. Gellrich

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Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century

Oral Contexts of Writing in Philosophy, Politics, and Poetry

By: Jesse M. Gellrich

This wide-ranging study of language and cultural change in fourteenth-century England argues that the influence of oral tradition is much more important to the advance of literacy than previously supposed. In contrast to the view of orality and literacy as opposing forces, the book maintains that the power of language consists in displacement, the capacity of one channel of language to take the place of the other, to make the source disappear into the copy. Appreciating the interplay between oral and written language makes possible for the first time a way of understanding the high literate achievements of this century in relation to momentous developments in social and political life. Part I reasseses the "nominalism" of Ockham and the "realism" of Wyclif through discussions of their major treatises on language and government. Part II argues that the chronicle histories of this century are tied specifically to oral customs, and Part III shows how Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Chaucer's Knight's Tale confront outright the displacement of language and dominion. Informed by recent discussions in critical theory, philosophy, and anthropology, the book offers a new synoptic view of fourteenth-century culture. As a critique of the social context of medieval literacy, it speaks directly to postmodern debate about the politics of historicism today.

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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages

Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction

By: Jesse Gellrich

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Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century

Oral Contexts of Writing in Philosophy, Politics, and Poetry

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Oral Contexts of Writing in Philosophy, Politics, and Poetry

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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages

The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages

Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century

Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century

The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages

The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages

Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century

Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century

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