The Resource The book of the incipit : beginnings in the fourteenth century, D. Vance Smith
The book of the incipit : beginnings in the fourteenth century, D. Vance Smith
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The item The book of the incipit : beginnings in the fourteenth century, D. Vance Smith represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool.
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- Summary
- "This is the first book to examine a peculiar feature 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 both medieval and contemporary terms." "The problem of beginning was invested with increasing urgency in the 1300s; it was grappled with in England's courts, churches, universities, workshops, fields, and streets. The Book of the Incipit reveals how Langland's poem exemplifies the widespread interest in beginning in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, an interest that is evident in such divergent fields as physics, time measurement, logic, grammar, rhetoric, theology, and book production." "Smith offers a theoretical understanding of beginning that departs from the structuralisms of Edward Said, the traditional formalisms of A. D. Nuttall, and most medievalist and modernist treatments of closure. Instead, he views a work's beginning as a figure of the beginning of the work itself, and the inception of language as the problem of beginning to which we continually return."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 295 p.
- Contents
-
- Preliminary
- Incipit: A Fourteenth-Century Incipit.
- p. 1
- Initium: Incipits and the Intentions of Vernacular Writing.
- p. 42
- Exordium: Making Beginnings: Disposition and Inscription.
- p. 61
- Thema: The Book That Makes Itself.
- p. 82
- Origo: Genealogy: Engenderment and Digression.
- p. 113
- Conditora: The Archive of Grammar: Beginning and Documentary Remembrance.
- p. 140
- Principium: Beginning Perfection: The Theology of Inception.
- p. 171
- Notes.
- p. 213
- Bibliography.
- p. 261
- Index.
- p. 283
- Isbn
- 9780816637607
- Label
- The book of the incipit : beginnings in the fourteenth century
- Title
- The book of the incipit
- Title remainder
- beginnings in the fourteenth century
- Statement of responsibility
- D. Vance Smith
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "This is the first book to examine a peculiar feature 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 both medieval and contemporary terms." "The problem of beginning was invested with increasing urgency in the 1300s; it was grappled with in England's courts, churches, universities, workshops, fields, and streets. The Book of the Incipit reveals how Langland's poem exemplifies the widespread interest in beginning in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, an interest that is evident in such divergent fields as physics, time measurement, logic, grammar, rhetoric, theology, and book production." "Smith offers a theoretical understanding of beginning that departs from the structuralisms of Edward Said, the traditional formalisms of A. D. Nuttall, and most medievalist and modernist treatments of closure. Instead, he views a work's beginning as a figure of the beginning of the work itself, and the inception of language as the problem of beginning to which we continually return."--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1963-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Smith, D. Vance
- Government publication
- government publication level undetermined
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR2015
- LC item number
- .S62 2001
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Medieval cultures
- Series volume
- 28
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Openings (Rhetoric)
- Rhetoric, Medieval
- Incipits
- Christian poetry, English (Middle)
- English language
- Langland, William
- Langland, William
- Langland, William
- Label
- The book of the incipit : beginnings in the fourteenth century, D. Vance Smith
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Preliminary
- Incipit: A Fourteenth-Century Incipit.
- p. 1
- Initium: Incipits and the Intentions of Vernacular Writing.
- p. 42
- Exordium: Making Beginnings: Disposition and Inscription.
- p. 61
- Thema: The Book That Makes Itself.
- p. 82
- Origo: Genealogy: Engenderment and Digression.
- p. 113
- Conditora: The Archive of Grammar: Beginning and Documentary Remembrance.
- p. 140
- Principium: Beginning Perfection: The Theology of Inception.
- p. 171
- Notes.
- p. 213
- Bibliography.
- p. 261
- Index.
- p. 283
- Control code
- l80000012669
- Extent
- xii, 295 p.
- Isbn
- 9780816637607
- Lccn
- lc00012669
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Label
- The book of the incipit : beginnings in the fourteenth century, D. Vance Smith
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Preliminary
- Incipit: A Fourteenth-Century Incipit.
- p. 1
- Initium: Incipits and the Intentions of Vernacular Writing.
- p. 42
- Exordium: Making Beginnings: Disposition and Inscription.
- p. 61
- Thema: The Book That Makes Itself.
- p. 82
- Origo: Genealogy: Engenderment and Digression.
- p. 113
- Conditora: The Archive of Grammar: Beginning and Documentary Remembrance.
- p. 140
- Principium: Beginning Perfection: The Theology of Inception.
- p. 171
- Notes.
- p. 213
- Bibliography.
- p. 261
- Index.
- p. 283
- Control code
- l80000012669
- Extent
- xii, 295 p.
- Isbn
- 9780816637607
- Lccn
- lc00012669
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
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