1st Edition
Word Outward Medieval Perspectives on the Entry into Language
By Corey J. Marvin
Copyright 2001
128 Pages
by
Routledge
128 Pages
by
Routledge
128 Pages
by
Routledge
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Using a combination of formalist and psychology-based approaches, this work examines the triple knowledge of subjectivity, body, and language in medieval imaginative literature.
Introduction 1. Entry into Language: Medieval Literature and the Poetics of Julia Kristeva 2. Castration: Chaucer's Prioress's Tale and John of Garland's Stella Maris 3. Mourning: Semiramis of MS Paris B.N. lat 8121A and Robert Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice 4. Ecstasy: The Wakefield Shephers Plays and Offering of the Magi Epilogue: Concluding Remarks Bibliography
Biography
Corey J. Marvin is Associate Professor of English at the Cerro Coso Community College, Ridgecrest, California. He was awarded his Doctorate in English from UC Santa Barbara in 1995.
