Table of Contents for Gellrich, J.M.: Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century: Oral Contexts of Writing in Philosophy, Politics, and Poetry.

Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century:
Oral Contexts of Writing in Philosophy, Politics, and Poetry
Jesse M. Gellrich

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Preface
Acknowledgments
Ch. 1 Vox Literata: On the Uses of Oral and Written Language in the Later Middle Ages 3
Ch. 2 The Voice of the Sign and the Semiology of Dominion in the Work of Ockham 39
Ch. 3 "Real Language" and the Rule of the Book in the Work of Wyclif 79
Ch. 4 Orality and Rhetoric in the Chronicle History of Edward III 123
Ch. 5 The Politics of Literacy in the Reign of Richard II 151
Ch. 6 The Spell of the Ax: Diglossia and History in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 195
Ch. 7 "Withouten Any Repplicacioun": Discourse and Dominion in the Knight's Tale 227
Bibliography 273
Index 297