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Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman
Author | : Myra Stokes |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2019-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780429589898 |
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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.
William Langland s Piers Plowman
Author | : William Langland,George Economou |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1996-12 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0812215613 |
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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
Reading Piers Plowman and The Pilgrim s Progress
Author | : Barbara A. Johnson |
Publsiher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0809316536 |
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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.
Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law
Author | : Arvind Thomas |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2019-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781487502461 |
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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.
An Introduction to Piers Plowman
Author | : Michael A. Calabrese,Tison Pugh,R. Barton Palmer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-08-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813064570 |
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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.
Reading Piers Plowman
Author | : Emily Steiner |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2013-05-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107244337 |
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Reading 'Piers Plowman' is an indispensable scholarly guide to a magnificent - and notoriously difficult - medieval poem. With 'Piers Plowman', the fourteenth-century poet William Langland proved that English verse could be at once spiritually electrifying and intellectually rigorous, capable of imagining society in its totality while at the same time exploring heady ideas about language, theology and culture. In her study of Piers Plowman, Emily Steiner explores how Langland's ambitious poetics emerged in dialogue with contemporary ideas; for example, about political counsel and gender, the ethics of poverty, Christian and pagan learning, lordship and servitude, and the long history of Christianity. Lucid and comprehensive, Steiner's study teaches us to stay alert to the poem's stunning effects while still making sense of its literary and historical contexts.
Piers Plowman
Author | : James Simpson |
Publsiher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : UOM:39015073985122 |
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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.
Piers the Ploughman
Author | : William Langland |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2006-01-26 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780141960920 |
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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.