The book of the incipit [[electronic resource] ] : beginnings in the fourteenth century / / D. Vance Smith
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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 | |
| 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.: | 9910784398003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Medieval cultures ; ; v. 28.