TY - BOOK ID - 77897811 TI - The syntax of desire : language and love in Augustine, the Modistae, Dante PY - 2007 SN - 1442685018 9781442685017 0802090702 9780802090706 PB - Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, DB - UniCat KW - Speculative grammar. KW - Modistic grammar KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Latin language, Medieval and modern KW - Scholasticism KW - Grammar KW - Augustine, KW - Dante Alighieri, KW - Avgustin, KW - Augustinus, Aurelius, KW - Augustyn, KW - Augustin, KW - Ughasṭīnūs, KW - Agostino, KW - Agustí, KW - Augoustinos, KW - Aurelius Augustinus, KW - Augustinus, KW - Agustín, KW - Aurelio Agostino, KW - Episkopos Ippōnos Augoustinos, KW - Augoustinos Ipponos, KW - Agostinho, KW - Ōgostinos, KW - Agostino, Aurelio, KW - אוגוסטינוס הקדוש KW - أغسطينوس، KW - 奥古斯丁 KW - Dante Alighieri KW - Alighieri, Dante KW - Dante, Alighieri KW - Alih'eri, Dante KW - Language. KW - Desire in literature KW - Love in literature KW - Speculative grammar KW - Language and languages KW - Syntax KW - Augustinus, Aurelius KW - Agostinho KW - Augustine of Hippo KW - Augustine d'Hippone KW - Agostino d'Ippona KW - Augustin d'Hippone KW - Augustinus Hipponensis, sanctus KW - Sant'Agostino KW - Augustinus van Hippo KW - Aurelius Augustinus KW - Aurelio Agostino KW - 聖アウグスティヌス KW - アウグスティヌス KW - Alihii︠e︡ri, Dante, KW - Alaghieri, Dante, KW - Aldigeri, Dante, KW - Aligeri, Dante, KW - Allighieri, Dante, KW - Aligerius, Dantes, KW - Aligheri, Dante, KW - Alighieri, Dante, KW - Alleghieri, Dante, KW - Durante Alighieri, KW - Tan-ting, KW - Danding, KW - Dāntī Alījyīrī, KW - Alīyīrī, Dāntī, KW - Dante Alih'i︠e︡ri, KW - Dante, KW - Dant Aligīeri, KW - Aligīeri, Dant, KW - Dantte, KW - Tantte, KW - Dantis Alagherius, KW - Danthe Alighieri, KW - Alighieri, Danthe, KW - Dante Alig'i︠e︡ri, KW - Alig'i︠e︡ri, Dante, KW - Ailígiéirí, Dainté, KW - Dantė Aligjeris, KW - Dānté ʼAligiyéri, KW - Makākavi Tāntē, KW - Tāntē Alikiyari, KW - Alikiyari, Tāntē, KW - אליגיירי דנטי KW - אליגירי, דנטי KW - דאנטי אליגיירי KW - דאנטי אליגיירי, KW - דאנט, KW - דנטה אליגיירי, KW - דנטה אליגירי, KW - דנטי אליגיארי, KW - דנטי אליגירי, KW - دانتى ألغييري KW - دانتي أليجيري،, KW - ダンテ, KW - Данте Аліґгіері, KW - Augustine KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax KW - Paradiso (Dante Alighieri) KW - Inferno (Dante Alighieri) KW - Infierno (Dante Alighieri) KW - U 'nfiernu (Dante Alighieri) KW - 'Nfiernu (Dante Alighieri) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77897811 AB - In medieval culture, the consideration of language is deeply connected to other aspects of the system of knowledge. One interesting connection takes place between theories of language and theories of larger concepts such as love and desire. The Syntax of Desire is an interdisciplinary examination of the interlacing operation of syntax and desire in three medieval?grammars:? theological, linguistic, and poetic. Exploring three representative aspects of medieval language theory, Elena Lombardi uncovers the ways in which syntax and desire were interrelated in the Middle Ages. She suggests that, in Augustine?s theology, the creative act of God in the universe emerges as a syntax that the human individual must interpret by means of desire; in the linguistic theory of the Modistae, she sees the syntax of language as parallel to a syntax of reality, one organized by the desiring interplay of matter and form; in Dante?s poetry, she argues that the language of the fallen human is bound together by the syntax of poetry, an act of desire that restores language to its primitive innocence. In addition to detailed analyses of medieval texts, The Syntax of Desire examines some aspects of the same relationship in light of contemporary linguistics, philosophy of language, and psychoanalysis. ER -