An Introduction To Piers Plowman
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Author | : Michael A. Calabrese |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813062709 |
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William Langland's allegorical poem Piers Plowman is becoming ever more popular in medieval English literature courses. But most current introductions focus primarily on the B text, leaving a gap in available resources for the poem's study. As Piers Plowman continues to gain academic attention in all its three versions (the A, B, and C texts), teachers and students need a new perspective and new approach to the poem as an evolving whole. This first comprehensive introduction to Langland's masterful work covers all three iterations and outlines the various changes that occurred between each. Useful for individuals reading any version of Piers Plowman, this engaging guide offers a much-needed navigational summary, a chronology of historic events relevant to the poem, biographical notes about Langland, and keys to characters and proper pronunciation. Calabrese's definitive and refreshingly lively volume allows readers to navigate this daunting poem and to contextualize it within the literary history of Western culture.
Author | : William Langland |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2006-01-26 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141960922 |
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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.
Author | : James Simpson |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
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This introductory study is based on the B-text version of Piers Plowman. Its structure follows that of the poem’s eight visions and its introduction situates the poem in literary and political history.
Author | : William Langland |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1996-12 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780812215618 |
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"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
Author | : William Langland |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2011-08-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1421401401 |
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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.
Author | : Myra Stokes |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2019-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0429589891 |
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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.
Author | : William Langland |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2014-10-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786495030 |
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William Langland's 14th-century poem Piers Plowman, a disturbing and often humorous commentary on corruption and greed, remains meaningful today. The allegorical work revolves around the narrator's quest to live a good life, and takes the form of a series of dreams in which Piers, the honest plowman, appears in various guises. Characters such as Conscience, Fidelity and Charity, alongside Falsehood and Guile, are instantly recognizable as our present-day politicians and celebrities, friends and neighbors. Social issues are confronted, including governance, economic relations, criminal justice, marital relations and the limits of academic learning, as well as religious belief and the natural world. This new verse translation from the Middle English preserves the energy, imagery and intent of the original, and retains its alliterative style. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author | : William Langland |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2018-09-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781726495486 |
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Piers Plowman By William Langland 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.
Author | : Rebecca Ann Davis |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198778406 |
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Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature explores the relationship of divine creativity, poetry, and ethics in William Langland's fourteenth-century dream vision. These concerns converge in the poem's rich vocabulary of kynde, the familiar Middle English word for nature, broadly construed. But in a remarkable coinage, Langland also uses kynde to name nature's creator, who appears as a character in Piers Plowman. The stakes of this representation could not be greater: by depicting God as Kynde, that is, under the guise of creation itself, Langland explores the capacity of nature and of language to bear the plenitude of the divine. In doing so, he advances a daring claim for the spiritual value of literary art, including his own searching form of theological poetry. This claim challenges recent critical attention to the poem's discourses of disability and failure and reveals the poem's place in a long and diverse tradition of medieval humanism that originates in the twelfth century and, indeed, points forward to celebrations of nature and natural capacity in later periods. By contextualizing Langland's poetics of kynde within contemporary literary, philosophical, legal, and theological discourses, Rebecca Davis offers a new literary history for Piers Plowman that opens up many of the poem's most perplexing interpretative problems.
Author | : Michael A. Calabrese |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-08-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813064574 |
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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.