Medieval Nonsense: Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England.
- Author / Editor
- Kirk, Jordan.
Medieval Nonsense: Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England.
- Published
- New York: Fordham University Press, 2021.
- Physical Description
- 208 pp.
- Series
- Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
- Description
- Examines works by Priscian, Boethius, Augustine, Walter Burley, and Chaucer,
to explore how fourteenth-century writers understood "possibilities in language" and "transformed these accounts into new forms, and practices of non-signification." Discusses Chaucer’s dream visions, in particular HF, and how Chaucer’s use of "non-signification" and use of words as sounds relates to contemporary language usage and modernist literature of writers such as Gertrude Stein, Lewis Carroll, and James Joyce.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
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