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Medieval arts doctrines on ambiguity and their place in Langland's poetics / John Chamberlin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2000.Description: 1 online resource (185 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773568587
  • 0773568581
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Medieval arts doctrines on ambiguity and their place in Langland's poetics.DDC classification:
  • 821/.1 21
LOC classification:
  • PR2017.L35 C426 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Lexical Ambiguity: Context, Ground, and Overview -- Augustine on Ambiguity -- The Twelfth Century and Arts of Discourse -- Piers Plowman: The Resources of Ambiguity in the SamaritanÃŒs Sermon -- Transition -- Words-as-Words: Context, Ground, and Overview -- Augustine on Words- as- Words -- The Twelfth Century and Words- as- Words -- Piers Plowman and the Ambiguity of Words- as- Words -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index
Review: "Using an interdisciplinary approach, John Chamberlin brings together an examination of Langland's poetic practices, a discussion of the historical development of the arts of discourse doctrines they derive from, and some broad considerations of the implications of these doctrines for language theory. Focusing on the concept of ambiguity, Chamberlin claims that the excess of meaning ambiguity gives language is at least as important as allegory to the understanding of Piers Plowman and other medieval texts. He deals with lexical ambiguity and the ambiguity of words-as-words - in which words themselves are taken as objects - offering linguistic, philosophical, and historical perspectives."--Jacket
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"Using an interdisciplinary approach, John Chamberlin brings together an examination of Langland's poetic practices, a discussion of the historical development of the arts of discourse doctrines they derive from, and some broad considerations of the implications of these doctrines for language theory. Focusing on the concept of ambiguity, Chamberlin claims that the excess of meaning ambiguity gives language is at least as important as allegory to the understanding of Piers Plowman and other medieval texts. He deals with lexical ambiguity and the ambiguity of words-as-words - in which words themselves are taken as objects - offering linguistic, philosophical, and historical perspectives."--Jacket

Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Lexical Ambiguity: Context, Ground, and Overview -- Augustine on Ambiguity -- The Twelfth Century and Arts of Discourse -- Piers Plowman: The Resources of Ambiguity in the SamaritanÃŒs Sermon -- Transition -- Words-as-Words: Context, Ground, and Overview -- Augustine on Words- as- Words -- The Twelfth Century and Words- as- Words -- Piers Plowman and the Ambiguity of Words- as- Words -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index

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