Word Outward : Medieval Perspectives on the Entry into Language

Name: Word Outward:Medieval Perspectives on the Entry into Language
ISBN: 9780203819364

doi:10.4324/9780203819364

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ABSTRACT

Using a combination of formalist and psychology-based approaches, this work examines the triple knowledge of subjectivity, body, and language in medieval imaginative literature.

Word Outward

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter Chapter 1|22 pages

Entry into Language: Medieval Literature and the Poetics of Julia Kristeva

chapter Chapter 2|26 pages

Castration: Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale and John of Garland’s Stella Maris

chapter Chapter 3|26 pages

Mourning: Semiramis of MS Paris B.N. lat 8121A and Robert Henryson’s Orpheus and Eurydice

chapter Chapter 4|32 pages

Ecstasy: the Wakefield Shepherd plays and Offering of the Magi

chapter |4 pages

Epilogue: Concluding Remarks