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Autore: |
Smith D. Vance <1963->
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Titolo: |
The book of the incipit [[electronic resource] ] : beginnings in the fourteenth century / / D. Vance Smith
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Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (316 p.) |
Disciplina: | 821/.1 |
Soggetto topico: | Christian poetry, English (Middle) - History and criticism |
English language - Middle English, 1100-1500 - Rhetoric | |
Openings (Rhetoric) | |
Rhetoric, Medieval | |
Incipits | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-281) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The book of the incipit ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8166-9258-0 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910452211803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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