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Autore |
Smith D. Vance <1963-> |
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Titolo |
The book of the incipit : beginnings in the fourteenth century / / D. Vance Smith |
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Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c2001 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (316 p.) |
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Collana |
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Medieval cultures ; ; v. 28 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Christian poetry, English (Middle) - History and criticism |
English language - Middle English, 1100-1500 - Rhetoric |
Openings (Rhetoric) |
Rhetoric, Medieval |
Incipits |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-281) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preliminary; Incipit: A Fourteenth-Century Incipit; Initium: Incipits and the Intentions of Vernacular Writing; Exordium: Making Beginnings: Disposition and Inscription; Thema: The Book That Makes Itself; Origo: Genealogy: Engenderment and Digression; Conditora: The Archive of Grammar: Beginning and Documentary Remembrance; Principium: Beginning Perfection: The Theology of Inception; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In the first book to examine one of the most peculiar features of one of the greatest and most perplexing poems of England's late Middle Ages-the successive attempts of Piers Plowman to begin, and to keep beginning-D. Vance Smith compels us to rethink beginning, as concept and practice, in both medieval and contemporary terms. |
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