Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance EnglishStanford University Press, 1996 - 338 sider The grammar and rhetoric of Tudor and Stuart England prioritized words and word-like figures rather than sentences, a prioritizing that had significant consequences for linguistic representation. Among these was a heightened awareness of the equivocal "thingness of language, whether verbal units like proverbs, inscriptions, and biblical quotations or individuated words such as lexical entries, Latin tags, and verbal icons. The author shows how the new or newly important technologies of printing and lexicography contributed substantially to this awareness. As symptom and cause these technologies participated in a growing cultural emphasis on externalized expression and on the material world. Both perceptually and materially they engaged the contemporary epistemological shift from essence to meaning and from referential object to word. |
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The Definitive Word | 71 |
Stones Well Squared | 101 |
Magic and Metaphor | 137 |
Weighing Words | 167 |
Notes | 235 |
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alphabetical Andrewes Andrewes's Aristotle Artegall Artegall's base text biblical Bullokar's Caliban century chap Christ cited conception context Cratylus cultural Deaths Duell definition Donne's dwell earlier early modern edition emphasis Erasmus Estienne Estienne's etymology example Faerie Queene Folger Shakespeare Library Forrest frozen words Giant gloss Grammar Greek headword Heaven human iconic issues of death John Donne Jonson's Lancelot Andrewes language Latin letters lexical linguae linguistic literal locum logical magic material matter meaning medieval memory metaphor Middle Ages mind Minsheu's mnemonic nature noun Penshurst period phrase Piers Plowman Plato poem pondus pondus gloriae Prebend Prebend sermon printed Prospero's proverbs quotation Rabelais reading reality reference reified relevant Renaissance Renaissance Dictionaries rhetorical scrine sense sentence sententiae sermon significant simply specifically speech Spenser's substance suggests Sycorax Thesaurus things Thomas Thomas's tion tradition trans translation tree University Press Varro verb verbal vernacular Vide Vulgaria weight writing