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200 14$aThe book of the incipit$b[electronic resource] $ebeginnings in the fourteenth century /$fD. Vance Smith
210   $aMinneapolis, Minn. $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2001
215   $a1 online resource (316 p.)
225 1 $aMedieval cultures ;$vv. 28
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-8166-3761-X 
311   $a0-8166-3760-1 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 261-281) and index.
327   $aContents; 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
330   $aIn the first book to examine one of the most peculiar features of one of the greatest and most perplexing poems of England's late Middle Ages-the successive attempts of Piers Plowman to begin, and to keep beginning-D. Vance Smith compels us to rethink beginning, as concept and practice, in both medieval and contemporary terms.
410  0$aMedieval cultures ;$vv. 28.
606   $aChristian poetry, English (Middle)$xHistory and criticism
606   $aEnglish language$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xRhetoric
606   $aOpenings (Rhetoric)
606   $aRhetoric, Medieval
606   $aIncipits
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615  0$aOpenings (Rhetoric)
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