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Eugene Vance.
Mervelous Signals: Poetics and Sign Theory in the Middle Ages.
Published Lincoln: Nebraska U.P., 1989 reissue (previously issued in hardback, 1986).
Series: Regents Studies in Medieval Culture.
ISBN 0803296088.
ISBN-13: 9780803296084.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 148×227×22mm.
Page count: xvii,365pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the covers on this copy are a bit scuffed with some wear on the edges and corners; a mild bump on the top outside corner; the spine is a little bumped at the top but not otherwise creased from reading; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £15.00
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Weight without packaging: 522g.

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Contents:
Augustine’s Confessions & the poetics of the law;
Augustine — language as temporality;
Roland & Charlemagne — remembering voices & the crypt;
Châtelain de Coucy — enunciation & story in the trouvère lyric;
Yvain & ideologies of change & exchange;
Aucassin et Nicolette & the poetics of discourse;
Poetics of dialogue in early French theater;
Dante’s Brunetto Latini;
Sign theory & politics of metaphor in Troilus & Criseyde;
Spenser, Troy & humanist ideology of translation.

Illustrations: 4 text figures
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: 1
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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