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Beyond the concordance: Semantic and mythic structures in Gower's Tale of Florent

Beyond the concordance: Semantic and mythic structures in Gower's Tale of Florent BEYOND THE CONCORDANCE: SEMANTIC AND MYTHIC STRUCTURES IN GOWER'S TALE OF FLORENT Nobody knows how John Gower might have felt about the technological accomplishment of a computerized concordance to hi s 35,000 lines in the Confessio Amantis. Had Chaucer lived to see this IBM day, he might have exclaimed, "Allas, alias, that evere word was printe !" However, modern scholars who map through their long medieval texts certainly have to appreciate the handiwork of the mechanical moron. The widespread availability and use of literary concordances which has been achieved through computer technology is undoubtedly going to foster certain innovations in textual and critical techniques. The chief of these, perhaps, willinvolve the use of a personal dictionary which defines by association, a kind of literary associogram which could transform the large corpus of a major author like Gower, Chaucer, or Shakespeare into something more readily intelligible to the modern psychoanalytic mind than the traditional dictionary definitions - something closer to the unconscious stream of a Joyce. For there is a strain of the unconscious in the diction of the ancient masters which goes beyond rhetorical principles; and critics need now to proceed beyond the concordance to the construction of a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Neophilologus Springer Journals

Beyond the concordance: Semantic and mythic structures in Gower's Tale of Florent

Phelan, Walter
Neophilologus , Volume 61 (3) – Apr 2, 2005
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Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Comparative Linguistics; Philology; Comparative Literature; Syntax
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0028-2677
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1572-8668
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10.1007/BF01513856
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BEYOND THE CONCORDANCE: SEMANTIC AND MYTHIC STRUCTURES IN GOWER'S TALE OF FLORENT Nobody knows how John Gower might have felt about the technological accomplishment of a computerized concordance to hi s 35,000 lines in the Confessio Amantis. Had Chaucer lived to see this IBM day, he might have exclaimed, "Allas, alias, that evere word was printe !" However, modern scholars who map through their long medieval texts certainly have to appreciate the handiwork of the mechanical moron. The widespread availability and use of literary concordances which has been achieved through computer technology is undoubtedly going to foster certain innovations in textual and critical techniques. The chief of these, perhaps, willinvolve the use of a personal dictionary which defines by association, a kind of literary associogram which could transform the large corpus of a major author like Gower, Chaucer, or Shakespeare into something more readily intelligible to the modern psychoanalytic mind than the traditional dictionary definitions - something closer to the unconscious stream of a Joyce. For there is a strain of the unconscious in the diction of the ancient masters which goes beyond rhetorical principles; and critics need now to proceed beyond the concordance to the construction of a

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Published: Apr 2, 2005

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