Medieval Nonsense: Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England

by Jordan Kirk

Book Overview

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 persists that these phenomena are exceptions that prove the rule of the period's theologically motivated commitment to the kernel of meaning over and against the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823294471
• ISBN13: 9780823294473
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"