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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12151707.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""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."".
- catalog description ""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."".
- catalog description "Incipit: A Fourteenth-Century Incipit -- Initium: Incipits and the Intentions of Vernacular Writing -- Exordium: Making Beginnings: Disposition and Inscription -- Thema: The Book That Makes Itself -- Origo: Genealogy: Engenderment and Digression -- Conditora: The Archive of Grammar: Beginning and Documentary Remembrance -- Principium: Beginning Perfection: The Theology of Inception.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 295 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0816637601 (hardcover : acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "081663761X (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Medieval cultures ; v. 28".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press,".
- catalog subject "821/.1 21".
- catalog subject "Christian poetry, English (Middle) History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English language Middle English, 1100-1500 Rhetoric.".
- catalog subject "Incipits.".
- catalog subject "Langland, William, 1330?-1400? Piers Plowman.".
- catalog subject "Langland, William, 1330?-1400? Technique.".
- catalog subject "Openings (Rhetoric)".
- catalog subject "PR2015 .S62 2001".
- catalog subject "Rhetoric, Medieval.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Incipit: A Fourteenth-Century Incipit -- Initium: Incipits and the Intentions of Vernacular Writing -- Exordium: Making Beginnings: Disposition and Inscription -- Thema: The Book That Makes Itself -- Origo: Genealogy: Engenderment and Digression -- Conditora: The Archive of Grammar: Beginning and Documentary Remembrance -- Principium: Beginning Perfection: The Theology of Inception.".
- catalog title "The book of the incipit : beginnings in the fourteenth century / D. Vance Smith.".
- catalog type "text".