{"product_id":"medieval-nonsense-jordan-kirk-9780823294466","title":"Medieval Nonsense: Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England","description":"In a series of close and unorthodox readings of works by Priscian, Boethius, Augustine, Walter Burley, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the anonymous authors of the \u003ci\u003eCloud of Unknowing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSt. Erkenwald\u003c\/i\u003e, Jordan Kirk reveals the way that writers across the fourteenth century reckoned with the word as mere sound. \u003ci\u003eMedieval Nonsense\u003c\/i\u003e rebuts the idea that single-minded devotion to the kernel of meaning within the word motivated these authors in their engagement with vox sola, the mere utterance. Rather, they recognized the possibilities inherent in the accounts of language transmitted to them from antiquity, and they transformed those accounts into new ideas, forms, and practices of nonsignification.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jordan Kirk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823294463\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823294466\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/04\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Jordan Kirk","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44129848262911,"sku":"9780823294466","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_67db7a6b-d125-46da-bd18-589d7b9dea44.jpg?v=1687466138","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/medieval-nonsense-jordan-kirk-9780823294466","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}