Medieval nonsense : signifying nothing in fourteenth-century England /

Medieval nonsense : signifying nothing in fourteenth-century England /

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Author / Creator:	Kirk, Jordan, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Fordham University Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	187 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Fordham series in medieval studies Fordham series in medieval studies.
Subject:	English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism. Nonsense literature, English -- History and criticism. Philosophy, Medieval. English literature -- Old English. Nonsense literature, English. Philosophy, Medieval. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12596394

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ISBN:	9780823294466 0823294463 9780823294473 0823294471 9780823294480
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"In a series of close and unorthodox readings of works by Priscian, Boethius, Augustine, Walter Burley, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the anonymous authors of the Cloud of Unknowing and St. Erkenwald, Jordan Kirk reveals the way that writers across the fourteenth century reckoned with the word as mere sound. Medieval Nonsense rebuts the idea that single-minded devotion to the kernel of meaning within the word motivated these authors in their engagement with vox sola, the mere utterance. Rather, they recognized the possibilities inherent in the accounts of language transmitted to them from antiquity, and they transformed those accounts into new ideas, forms, and practices of nonsignification"--

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