Verlag: Stratton Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1648954863 ISBN 13: 9781648954863
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Verlag: Rheinische Verl.-Anst., 1958
Anbieter: DER COMICWURM - Ralf Heinig, Hohnhorst, DE, Deutschland
Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. Deutliche Gebrausspuren---. nein.
Verlag: Wiesbaden : Rheinische Verlags-Anstalt [1958]., 1958
Anbieter: Antiquariat Bläschke, Darmstadt, Deutschland
Kl.-8° u. ill. OU. Zustand: Gut. 354 S. : mit Kt. OU berieben u. m. Randläsuren, Buchblock nachgedunkelt, sonst einwandfrei; gutes Expl. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.
Verlag: FORDHAM UNIV PR, 2021
ISBN 10: 0823294463 ISBN 13: 9780823294466
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Zustand: New. Über den AutorrnrnJordan Kirk is Associate Professor of English at Pomona College.KlappentextrnrnIn a series of close and unorthodox readings of works by Priscian, Boethius, Augustine, Walter Burley, Geoffrey Chau.
Verlag: Fordham University Press Mai 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0823294463 ISBN 13: 9780823294466
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Five hundred years before ¿Jabberwocky¿ and Tender Buttons, writers were already preoccupied with the question of nonsense. But even as the prevalence in medieval texts of gibberish, babble, birdsong, and allusions to bare voice has come into view in recent years, an impression persists that these phenomena are exceptions that prove the rule of the period¿s theologically motivated commitment to the kernel of meaning over and against the shell of the mere letter.This book shows that, to the contrary, the foundational object of study of medieval linguistic thought was vox non-significativa, the utterance insofar as it means nothing whatsoever, and that this fact was not lost on medieval writers of various kinds. 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, it inquires into the way that a number of fourteenth-century writers recognized possibilities inherent in the accounts of language transmitted to them from antiquity and transformed those accounts into new ideas, forms, and practices of non-signification. Retrieving a premodern hermeneutics of obscurity in order to provide materials for an archeology of the category of the literary, Medieval Nonsense shows how these medieval linguistic textbooks, mystical treatises, and poems were engineered in such a way as to arrest the faculty of interpretation and force it to focus on the extinguishing of sense that occurs in the encounter with language itself.