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Reading Piers Plowman
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Author : Emily Steiner
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-05-09
Reading Piers Plowman written by Emily Steiner and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
A lucid and comprehensive study of Piers Plowman, one of the most magnificent literary works of the Middle Ages.
Justice And Mercy In Piers Plowman
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Author : Myra Stokes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-05
Justice And Mercy In Piers Plowman written by Myra Stokes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Originally published by 1984 Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman provides a clear and informative introduction to the complexities of Langland’s Piers Plowman. It identifies Langland’s major concerns and shows in detail, passus by passus, how these are developed by him in the first part of the poem – the Visio. It offers a close reading of the text and draws parallels where relevant with other medieval writings. There is a final brief chapter on the Vita which outlines the chief ways in which the themes of justice, mercy and law that have been followed through Visio continue to be of major importance in the rest of the poem. By concentrating on the philosophical core of the work, the climate of thought in which Langland wrote and the thematic integrity of the poem as a whole, the author makes a difficult, but unique and fascinating poem more accessible.
Reading Piers Plowman And The Pilgrim S Progress
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Author : Barbara A. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 1992
Reading Piers Plowman And The Pilgrim S Progress written by Barbara A. Johnson and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Centering her discussion on two historical "ways of reading"—which she calls the Protestant and the lettered—Barbara A. Johnson traces the development of a Protestant readership as it is reflected in the reception of Langland’s Piers Plowman and Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. Informed by reader-response and reception theory and literacy and cultural studies, Johnson’s ambitious examination of these two ostensibly literary texts charts the cultural roles they played in the centuries following their composition, roles far more important than their modern critical reputations can explain. Johnson argues that much more evidence exists about how earlier readers read than has hitherto been acknowledged. The reception of Piers Plowman, for example, can be inferred from references to the work, the apparatus its Renaissance printer inserted in his editions, the marginal comments readers inscribed both in printed editions and in manuscripts, and the apocryphal "plowman" texts that constitute interpretations of Langland’s poem. She demonstrates by example that what is culturally transmitted has not been just the work itself; it includes vestiges of past readers’ encounters with the text that are traceable both in the way a text is presented as well as in the way that presentation is received. Conditioned more by religious, historical, and economic forces than by literary concerns, Langland’s poem became a part of the reformist tradition that culminated in Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. By understanding this tradition, Bunyan’s place in it, and the way the reception of The Pilgrim’s Progress illustrates the beginning of a new, more realistic fictional tradition, Johnson concludes, we can begin to delineate a more accurate history of the ways literature and society intersect, a history of readers reading.
Managing Language In Piers Plowman
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Author : Gillian Rudd
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 1994
Managing Language In Piers Plowman written by Gillian Rudd and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Literary Criticism categories.
A fresh approach to ambiguities of language in Piers Plowman. Starting from a consideration of medieval definitions of the word as both logos and verbum, this reading of Piers Plowmanshows that both scholastic and mystic attitudes to language are at play within the poem.Concepts of authority, authorship, interpretation and translation are explored and it is made clear that these are inextricably linked, both in critical debates and in the text itself. The study progresses towards a conclusion that the full potential of language can be realised only when the desire to express things unambiguously is abandoned and ambiguity itself is allowed to be a power and a way of understanding. The rich fabric of Langland's text thusbecomes something to enjoy and participate in, rather than battle with or seek to control. Furthermore, it proves to be a meeting point for medieval and modern theories of text and reading, which are themselves enlivened by this complex and vivid poem. G.A. RUDD lectures in English at the University of Liverpool.
An Introduction To Piers Plowman
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Author : Michael A. Calabrese
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-30
An Introduction To Piers Plowman written by Michael A. Calabrese and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The author covers all three iterations of William Langland's Piers Plowman and discusses the various changes that occurred from one revision to the next, making this work unique in its ability to be taught alongside any version of a professor's choosing.
Piers Plowman And The Medieval Discourse Of Desire
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Author : Fellow of King's College Cambridge and Newton Trust Lecturer in English Nicolette Zeeman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-04-20
Piers Plowman And The Medieval Discourse Of Desire written by Fellow of King's College Cambridge and Newton Trust Lecturer in English Nicolette Zeeman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
This ambitious study links William Langland's great poem Piers Plowman to wider medieval enquiries into the nature of intellectual and spiritual desire. Zeeman's radical approach opens up a completely fresh reading of Piers Plowman and sheds light on the history of medieval psychology.
Piers The Ploughman
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Author : William Langland
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-01-26
Piers The Ploughman written by William Langland and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-26 with Poetry categories.
Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.
Piers Plowman
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Author : William Langland
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2011-08-15
Piers Plowman written by William Langland and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
By conservatively editing one important witness of Piers Plowman, Vaughan takes a new generation of students to an early version of this great medieval poem.
Piers Plowman And The Reinvention Of Church Law In The Late Middle Ages
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Author : Arvind Thomas
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2019-03-14
Piers Plowman And The Reinvention Of Church Law In The Late Middle Ages written by Arvind Thomas and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poet’s words and the lawyer’s world really so far apart? To what extent does the art of making poems share in the craft of making laws, and vice versa? Framed by such questions, Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages examines the mutually productive interaction between literary and legal "makyngs" in England’s great Middle English poem by William Langland. Focusing on Piers Plowman’s preoccupation with wrongdoing in the B and C versions, Arvind Thomas examines the versions’ representations of trials, confessions, restitutions, penalties, and pardons. Thomas explores how the "literary" informs and transforms the "legal" until they finally cannot be separated. Thomas shows how the poem’s narrative voice, metaphor, syntax and style not only reflect but also act upon properties of canon law, such as penitential procedures and authoritative maxims. Langland’s mobilization of juridical concepts, Thomas insists, not only engenders a poetics informed by canonist thought but also expresses an alternative vision of canon law from that proposed by medieval jurists and today’s medievalists.
William Langland S Piers Plowman
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Author : William Langland
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 1996-12
William Langland S Piers Plowman written by William Langland and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-12 with Poetry categories.
"A gifted poet has given us an astute, adroit, vigorous, inviting, eminently readable translation. . . . The challenging gamut of Langland's language . . . has here been rendered with blessed energy and precision. Economou has indeed Done-Best."—Allen Mandelbaum