Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century : : Oral Contexts of Writing in Philosophy, Politics, and Poetry / / 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 th...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1995] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Vox Literata: On the Uses of Oral and Written Language in the Later Middle Ages
- Part One: Philosophy
- Chapter Two. The Voice of the Sign and the Semiology of Dominion in the Work of Ockham
- Chapter Three. "Real Language" and the Rule of the Book in the Work of Wyclif
- Part Two: Politics
- Chapter Four. Orality and Rhetoric in the Chronicle History of Edward III
- Chapter Five. The Politics of Literacy in the Reign of Richard II
- Part Three: Poetry
- Chapter Six. The Spell of the Ax: Diglossia and History in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Chapter Seven. Chapter Seven "Withouten Any Repplicacioun": Discourse and Dominion in the Knight's Tale
- Bibliography
- Index