A History of Literary Criticism and T…
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grammatica had already and very elaborately replaced the world of things by the world of signs; it had already reduced thinghood to language, in a vast and hierarchical system of signification that spanned many levels. This system was just as relational as any view of language to be found in Saussure. In other words, no element in that system was presumed to have any isolated or independent significance. In all these ways, medieval literary theory was far more sophisticated – and more foundational in our own ways of thinking – than was previously thought. The fully fledged encounter of modern theory with medieval grammatica has yet to occur, though it has begun in the work of scholars such as Rita Copeland and A. J. Minnis. It is an encounter that promises to transform our understanding of both. Literature in the Scheme of Human Learning: The Sacred Hermeneutics of Hugh of St. — location: 4679