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This book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights of such thinkers as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and Derrida to explore the continuity of medieval ideas about speaking, writing, and texts.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half Title Page, Title Page
  2. pp. 1-3
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  1. Copyright
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  1. Dedication
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  1. Epigraphs
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  1. Contents
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  1. Illustrations
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Abbreviations
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  1. Plate 1
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 17-28
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  1. 1. The Argument of the Book: Medieval Writing and Modern Theory
  2. pp. 29-50
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  1. 2. The Semiology of Space in the Middle Ages: On Manuscript Painting, Sacred Architecture, Scholasticism, and Music
  2. pp. 51-93
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  1. 3. The Language of Mythology: On Medieval Grammar and Hermeneutics
  2. pp. 94-138
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  1. 4. Dante’s Liber Occultorum and the Structure of Allegory in the Commedia
  2. pp. 139-166
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  1. 5. The Origin of Language Reconsidered: Chaucer’s House of Fame
  2. pp. 167-201
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  1. 6. Problems of Misreading: The “Prologue” to The Legend of Good Women
  2. pp. 202-223
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  1. 7. Interpreting the “Naked Text” in the “General Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales
  2. pp. 224-247
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  1. 8. Retrospect: On Historical Change
  2. pp. 248-256
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  1. Bibliography
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  1. Index
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