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The book of the incipit : beginnings in the fourteenth century / D. Vance Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, D. Vance, 1963-
- Series:
- Medieval cultures ; v. 28.
- Medieval cultures ; v. 28
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian poetry, English (Middle)--History and criticism.
- Christian poetry, English (Middle).
- English language--Middle English, 1100-1500--Rhetoric.
- English language.
- Openings (Rhetoric).
- Rhetoric, Medieval.
- Incipits.
- Langland, William, 1330?-1400? Piers Plowman.
- Langland, William.
- Langland, William, 1330?-1400?--Technique.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-281) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9258-0
- OCLC:
- 171126835
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