Medieval Nonsense : : Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England / / Jordan Kirk.
In a series of close and unorthodox readings of works by Priscian, Boethius, Augustine, Walter Burley, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the anonymous authors of the Cloud of Unknowing and St. Erkenwald, Jordan Kirk reveals the way that writers across the fourteenth century reckoned with the word as mere sound....
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Kirk, Jordan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Medieval Nonsense : Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England / Jordan Kirk. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (208 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Fordham Series in Medieval Studies Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Wind in the Shell: Prolegomena to the Study of Medieval Nonsignification -- 1 Priscian, Boethius, and Augustine on Vox Sola -- 2 Walter Burley on Suppositio Materialis -- 3 The Cloud of Unknowing on the Litil Worde of O Silable -- 4 St. Erkenwald on the Caracter -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In a series of close and unorthodox readings of works by Priscian, Boethius, Augustine, Walter Burley, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the anonymous authors of the Cloud of Unknowing and St. Erkenwald, Jordan Kirk reveals the way that writers across the fourteenth century reckoned with the word as mere sound. Medieval Nonsense rebuts the idea that single-minded devotion to the kernel of meaning within the word motivated these authors in their engagement with vox sola, the mere utterance. Rather, they recognized the possibilities inherent in the accounts of language transmitted to them from antiquity, and they transformed those accounts into new ideas, forms, and practices of nonsignification. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) English literature Old English, ca. 450-1100 History and criticism. Nonsense literature, English History and criticism. Philosophy, Medieval. Literary Studies. Medieval Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. bisacsh Nonsense. language. literature. medieval. voice. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Linguistics 2021 English 9783110754117 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Linguistics 2021 9783110753882 ZDB-23-DSP Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739091 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823294497?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823294497 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823294497/original |
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