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John Chamberlin, Medieval Arts Doctrines on Ambiguity and their Place in Langland's Poetics.
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March 22, 2002 |
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(Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000). 185 pp. ISBN 0-7735-2073-2. 39.00 [pounds sterling].
Books on Langland's poetics being rarities, the late John Chamberlin's study is very welcome. Recognizing grammar as `the ground of all', Chamberlin argues for the centrality to Piers Plowman of ideas about language developed by writers on the trivium (the title's `arts of discourse'), especially ars grammatica. The first part treats the lexical ambiguity found in `words-as-words'. Symmetrically arranged, chapters i and v provide a `context, ground and overview', iii and vi and ii and vii accounts of respectively Augustine and the twelfth-century writers on…
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