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The book of the incipit : beginnings in the fourteenth century /
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 bo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis, Minn. :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2001.
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| Colección: | Medieval cultures ;
v. 28. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.