Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxi, 318 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Medieval studies after Derrida after Heidegger / R.A. Shoaf -- Adam's first word and the failure of language in Paradiso XXXIII / Glenn C. Arbery -- Misrepresentation and misconception in Chr�tien de Troyes : nonverbal and verbal semiotics in Erec et Enide and Perceval / Joan Tasker Grimbert -- Emar�'s cloak and audience response / Ross G. Arthur -- The ambiguity of silence : gender, writing, and Le Roman de silence / Peter L. Allen -- Ambiguous signs and authorial deceptions in fourteenth-century fictions / Edmund Reiss -- Chaucer's Lak of stedfastnesse : a revalorization of the word / Liam O. Purdon -- Redeemed language and the ending of Troilus and Criseyde / Phillip Pulsiano -- Writing on the ground : interpretation in Chester Play XII / Judith Ferster -- Both fixed and free : language and destiny in Chaucer's Knight's tale and Troilus and Criseyde / Julian N. Wasserman. Heavenly sign and comic design in Gower's Confessio amantis / David W. Hiscoe -- Language and women : from silence to speech / Edith Joyce Benkov -- Renaming the sins : a homiletic topos of linguistic instability in the Canterbury tales / Kathleen M. Ashley -- Robyn the miller's thrifty work / Peggy A. Knapp. Subjects; Geschichte 1000-1500. Language and languages Philosophy History. Philosophy, Medieval. Literature, Medieval History and criticism. 1 Kg.

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Title: Sign, sentence, discourse : language in medieval thought and literature / edited by Julian N. Wasserman and Lois Roney
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 081562445X
ISBN 13: 9780815624455
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st edition.
Weight: 1 kilogram

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