LEADER 04856nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910780055603321 005 20230421041346.0 010 $a1-282-75221-9 010 $a9786612752216 010 $a1-4008-2166-5 010 $a1-4008-1171-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400821662 035 $a(CKB)111056486503562 035 $a(EBL)581594 035 $a(OCoLC)700688587 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000139663 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11134424 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139663 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10028119 035 $a(PQKB)10055136 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581594 035 $a(OCoLC)51480697 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35984 035 $a(DE-B1597)446131 035 $a(OCoLC)979685234 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400821662 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581594 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035875 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275221 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486503562 100 $a19940627d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDiscourse and dominion in the fourteenth century$b[electronic resource] $eoral contexts of writing in philosophy, politics, and poetry /$fJesse M. Gellrich 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1995 215 $a1 online resource (319 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-03749-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-296) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$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 330 $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 reassesses 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aOral tradition$zEngland 606 $aPolitics and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aWritten communication$zEngland 606 $aDiscourse analysis, Literary 606 $aOral-formulaic analysis 606 $aPhilosophy, Medieval 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$y14th century$xHistoriography 607 $aGreat Britain$xCivilization$y1066-1485 607 $aEngland$xLanguages 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aOral tradition 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory. 615 0$aWritten communication 615 0$aDiscourse analysis, Literary. 615 0$aOral-formulaic analysis. 615 0$aPhilosophy, Medieval. 676 $a302.2/242/042209023 700 $aGellrich$b Jesse M.$f1942-$0155339 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780055603321 996 $aDiscourse and dominion in the fourteenth century$93674515 997 $aUNINA