Mervelous Signals: Poetics and Sign Theory in the Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Vance, Eugene.
Mervelous Signals: Poetics and Sign Theory in the Middle Ages
- Published
- Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.
- Description
- That "the major thread of coherence in medieval culture was its sustained reflection...upon language as a semiotic system--more broadly, upon the nature, the functions and the limitations of the verbal sign as a mediator of human understanding" is explored in ten essays on Augustine; the "Chanson de Roland"; the "trouvere" lyric; Chretien's "Yvain"; "Aucassin et Nicolette"; medieval French drama; Chaucer's TC; "Inferno," canto 15; and the "Faerie Queene," bk. 3.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Troilus and Criseyde.