Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-281) and index.
Preliminary; Incipit: A Fourteenth-Century Incipit; Initium: Incipits and the Intentions of Vernacular Writing; Exordium: Making Beginnings: Disposition and Inscription; Thema: The Book That Makes Itself; Origo: Genealogy: Engenderment and Digression; Conditora: The Archive of Grammar: Beginning and Documentary Remembrance; Principium: Beginning Perfection: The Theology of Inception; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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In the first book to examine one of the most peculiar features of one of the greatest and most perplexing poems of England's late Middle Ages--the successive attempts of Piers Plowman to begin, and to keep beginning--D. Vance Smith compels us to rethink beginning, as concept and practice, in both medieval and contemporary terms.
JSTOR
22573/cttbrn68
Book of the incipit.
9780816637607
Langland, William,1330?-1400?-- Technique.
Langland, William,1330?-1400?, Piers Plowman.
Langland, William,1330?-1400?
Piers Plowman (Langland, William)
Christian poetry, English (Middle)-- History and criticism.
English language-- Middle English, 1100-1500-- Rhetoric.