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

"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 lang...

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Main Author: Chamberlin, John, 1942-1999
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Language:English
Published: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2000.
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245 1 0 |a Medieval arts doctrines on ambiguity and their place in Langland's poetics /  |c John Chamberlin. 
260 |a Montreal, Que. :  |b McGill-Queen's University Press,  |c ©2000. 
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520 1 |a "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 
505 0 |a 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 
600 1 0 |a Langland, William,  |d 1330?-1400?  |t Piers Plowman. 
630 0 7 |a Piers Plowman (Langland, William)  |2 fast 
650 0 |a Ambiguity in literature. 
650 0 |a Poetics  |x History  |y To 1500. 
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650 7 |a LITERARY CRITICISM  |x Drama.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Ambiguity in literature  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Poetics  |2 fast 
648 7 |a To 1500  |2 fast 
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