02885nam 2200685 a 450 991045221180332120200520144314.00-8166-9258-0(CKB)1000000000346860(EBL)310536(OCoLC)171126835(SSID)ssj0000277430(PQKBManifestationID)11240446(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277430(PQKBWorkID)10240898(PQKB)10172417(MiAaPQ)EBC310536(OCoLC)133168365(MdBmJHUP)muse38937(Au-PeEL)EBL310536(CaPaEBR)ebr10151223(CaONFJC)MIL522666(EXLCZ)99100000000034686020001127d2001 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe book of the incipit[electronic resource] beginnings in the fourteenth century /D. Vance SmithMinneapolis, Minn. University of Minnesota Pressc20011 online resource (316 p.)Medieval cultures ;v. 28Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-3761-X 0-8166-3760-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-281) and index.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; IndexIn 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.Medieval cultures ;v. 28.Christian poetry, English (Middle)History and criticismEnglish languageMiddle English, 1100-1500RhetoricOpenings (Rhetoric)Rhetoric, MedievalIncipitsElectronic books.Christian poetry, English (Middle)History and criticism.English languageRhetoric.Openings (Rhetoric)Rhetoric, Medieval.Incipits.821/.1Smith D. Vance1963-859023MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452211803321The book of the incipit1917208UNINA