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020 _a9781400821662
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024 7 _a10.1515/9781400821662
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400821662
035 _a(DE-B1597)446131
035 _a(OCoLC)979685234
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
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050 4 _aPR275.O72G45 1995
072 7 _aLIT004120
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082 0 4 _a302.2/242/042209023
_a820.1
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aGellrich, Jesse M.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aDiscourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century :
_bOral Contexts of Writing in Philosophy, Politics, and Poetry /
_cJesse M. Gellrich.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[1995]
264 4 _c©1995
300 _a1 online resource (320 p.)
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter One. Vox Literata: On the Uses of Oral and Written Language in the Later Middle Ages --
_tPart One: Philosophy --
_tChapter Two. The Voice of the Sign and the Semiology of Dominion in the Work of Ockham --
_tChapter Three. "Real Language" and the Rule of the Book in the Work of Wyclif --
_tPart Two: Politics --
_tChapter Four. Orality and Rhetoric in the Chronicle History of Edward III --
_tChapter Five. The Politics of Literacy in the Reign of Richard II --
_tPart Three: Poetry --
_tChapter Six. The Spell of the Ax: Diglossia and History in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight --
_tChapter Seven. Chapter Seven "Withouten Any Repplicacioun": Discourse and Dominion in the Knight's Tale --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThis 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aDiscourse analysis, Literary.
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_yMiddle English, 1100-1500
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aOral tradition
_zEngland
_xHistory
_yTo 1500.
650 0 _aOral-formulaic analysis.
650 0 _aPhilosophy, Medieval.
650 0 _aPolitics and literature
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory
_yTo 1500.
650 0 _aWritten communication
_zEngland.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781400821662
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400821662
856 4 2 _3Cover
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