The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction

by Jesse Gellrich

Overview

This book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights of such thinkers as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and Derrida to explore the continuity of medieval ideas about speaking, writing, and texts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501740701
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	08/15/2019
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jesse M. Gellrich is Professor of English at Louisiana State University. She is the author of The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction and Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century: Oral Contexts of Writing in Philosophy, Politics, and Poetry.

Editorial Reviews

One of the most successful attempts yet to apply contemporary literary theory to medieval poetry.

Times Literary Supplement - A.J. Minnis

One of the most successful attempts yet to apply contemporary literary theory to medieval poetry.

--A.J. Minnis "Times Literary Supplement"

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