Five hundred years before "Jabberwocky" and Tender Buttons, writers were already preoccupied with the question of nonsense. But even as the prevalence in medieval texts of gibberish, babble, birdsong, and allusions to bare voice has come into view in recent years, an impression …
The Wind in the Shell: Prolegomena to the Study of Medieval Nonsignification -- Priscian, Boethius, and Augustine on Vox Sola -- Walter Burley on Suppositio Materialis -- The Cloud of Unknowing on the Litil Worde of O Silabe -- St. Erkenwald on the Caracter. "In a series of clo…
"In a series of close and unorthodox readings of works by Priscian, Boethius, Augustine, Walter Burley, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the anonymous authors of the Cloud of Unknowing and St. Erkenwald, Jordan Kirk reveals the way that writers across the fourteenth century reckoned with t…
"In a series of close and unorthodox readings of works by Priscian, Boethius, Augustine, Walter Burley, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the anonymous authors of the Cloud of Unknowing and St. Erkenwald, Jordan Kirk reveals the way that writers across the fourteenth century reckoned with t…