The idea of the book in the Middle Ages : language theory, mythology, and fiction /

This book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights ...

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gellrich, Jesse M., 1942- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • [1] The Argument of the Book : Medieval Writing and Modern Theory
  • [2] The Semiology of Space in the Middle Ages: On Manuscript Painting, Sacred Architecture, Scholasticism, and Music
  • [3] The Language of Mythology : On Medieval Grammar and Hermeneutics
  • [4] Dante's Liber Occultorum and the Structure of Allegory in the Commedia
  • [5] The Origin of Language Reconsidered : Chaucer's House of Fame
  • [6] Problems of Misreading: The "Prologue" to The Legend of Good Women
  • [7] I nterpreting the "Naked Text" in the "General Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales
  • [8] Retrospect: On Historical Change
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX