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" The book of the incipit : "
D. Vance Smith.
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BL
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988741
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b743111
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Smith, D. Vance,1963-
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The book of the incipit : : beginnings in the fourteenth century /\ D. Vance Smith.
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Minneapolis, Minn. :: University of Minnesota Press,, ©2001.
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Medieval cultures ;; v. 28
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1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages)
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0816692580
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0816637601
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081663761X
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9780816637607
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9780816637614
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-281) and index.
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| Contents
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Preliminary; 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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In the first book to examine one of the most peculiar features 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.
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Langland, William,1330?-1400?, Piers Plowman.
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Langland, William,1330?-1400?-- Technique.
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Langland, William,1330?-1400?
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Christian poetry, English (Middle)-- History and criticism.
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English language-- Middle English, 1100-1500-- Rhetoric.
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Incipits.
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Openings (Rhetoric)
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Rhetoric, Medieval.
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Christian poetry, English (Middle)
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Incipits
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Openings (Rhetoric)
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POETRY-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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POETRY-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Rhetoric, Medieval
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Technique
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Piers Plowman (Langland, William)
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821/.1
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PR2015.S62 2001eb
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