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Author Gellrich, Jesse M

Title Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century : Oral Contexts of Writing in Philosophy, Politics, and Poetry
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (319 pages)
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Summary This wide-ranging study of language and cultural change in fourteenth-century England argues that the influence of oral tradition is much more important to the advance of literacy than previously supposed. In contrast to the view of orality and literacy as opposing forces, the book maintains that the power of language consists in displacement, the capacity of one channel of language to take the place of the other, to make the source disappear into the copy. Appreciating the interplay between oral and written language makes possible for the first time a way of understanding the high literate ac
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Subject English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
Oral tradition -- England -- History -- To 1500
Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
Written communication -- England
Discourse analysis, Literary
Oral-formulaic analysis.
Philosophy, Medieval.
literary criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Discourse analysis, Literary
English literature -- Middle English
Historiography
Language and languages
Oral-formulaic analysis
Oral tradition
Philosophy, Medieval
Politics and literature
Written communication
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- 14th century -- Historiography
England -- Languages. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2019102629
Subject England
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400821662
1400821665