Imaginative Prophecy In The B Text Of Piers Plowman

Author : Ernest N. Kaulbach
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Christian poetry, English (Middle)
ISBN : 0859913570

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Imaginative Prophecy in the B-text of Piers Plowman by Ernest N. Kaulbach Pdf

Exploration of the Arabic psychological theory underlying Piers Plowmanand the interpretive insights this offers. The psychology underlying Passus 8-20 of Piers Plowmanremains unexplored in its entirety, despite single articles on separate psychological personifications. Professor Kaulbach aims to remedy this huge gap in our understanding of Langland's poem, by adducing a psychology which not only illuminates previously mysterious relations between psychological actants, but also reveals that many apparently non-psychological figures (Piers Plowman, for example) are best explained by reference to psychological theory. The body of psychological theory on which the author draws is that of Arabic, specifically Avicennan theory of the prophetic mental act, the `vis imaginativa' or `ymaginatif' in Middle English. Beyond the original interpretative insights offered by this book Professor Kaulbach also describes the intellectual and manuscript context in which Arabic psychology was made available to a late fourteenth century English poet. ERNEST N. KAULBACHis Associate Professor of English, Classics and (occasionally) Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin.

Author : William Elford Rogers
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813210925

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Interpretation in Piers Plowman by William Elford Rogers Pdf

Rogers' philosophical and theological investigation of the unifying themes of Piers Plowman argues that the structure of the text reflects William Langland's view of the world and human experience.

Author : David Strong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319519814

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The Philosophy of Piers Plowman by David Strong Pdf

This book examines William Langland’s late medieval poem, The Vision of Piers Plowman, in light of contemporary intellectual thought. David Strong argues that where the philosophers John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham revolutionize the view of human potential through their theories of epistemology, ethics, and freedom of the will, Langland vivifies these ideas by contextualizing them in an individual’s search for truth and love. Specifically, the text ponders the intersection between reason and the will in expressing love. While scholars have consistently noted the text’s indebtedness to these higher strains of thought, this is the first book-length study in over thirty years that explores the depth of this interconnection, and the only one that considers the salience of both Scotus and Ockham. It is essential reading for medieval literary specialists and students as well as any cultural historian who desires to augment their knowledge of truth and love.

Author : Theodore L. Steinberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429557965

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Piers Plowman and Prophecy by Theodore L. Steinberg Pdf

Originally published in 1991, Piers Plowman: An Approach to the C-Text studies what might be called the "mindscape" of Piers Plowman. The book argues that the C-text poem is inspired by the writings of the biblical prophets. The book outlines the fourteenth-century background and discusses the idea of prophecy and how the biblical prophets were read, as well as the role of literary models such as Wyclif and Joachim of Fiore. By examining the specific aspects of the poem, the book shows imaginative connections between the poem and the prophets, offering a unique perspective that Langland’s prophetic stance is complementary to other approaches to the poem.

Author : Andrew Galloway
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812202007

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The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 1 by Andrew Galloway Pdf

The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century is inaugurated with the publication of the first two of its five projected volumes.

Author : Jeremy Dimmick,James Simpson,Nicolette Zeeman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191541964

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Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England by Jeremy Dimmick,James Simpson,Nicolette Zeeman Pdf

This book capitalizes on brilliant recent work on sixteenth-century iconoclasm to extend the study of images, both their making and their breaking, into an earlier period and wider discursive territories. Pressures towards iconoclasm are powerfully registered in fourteenth and fifteenth-century writings, both heterodox and orthodox, just as the use of images is central to the practice of both politics and religion. The governance of images turns out, indeed, to be central to governance itself. It is also of critical concern in any moment of historical change, when new cultural forms must incorporate or destroy the images of the old order. The iconoclast redescribes images as pure matter, objects of idolatry worthy only of the hammer. Issues of historical memory, no less than of social ethics, are, then, inherent to the making, love, and destruction of images. These issues are the consistent concern of the essays of this volume, essays commissioned from a range of outstanding late medievalists in a variety of disciplines: literature, art history, Biblical studies, and intellectual history.

Author : Gillian Rudd
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859913929

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Managing Language in Piers Plowman by Gillian Rudd Pdf

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.

Author : Andrew Galloway,Stephen A. Barney
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812239229

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The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 1 by Andrew Galloway,Stephen A. Barney Pdf

The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century is inaugurated with the publication of the first two of its five projected volumes.

Author : Emily Steiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521824842

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Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature by Emily Steiner Pdf

Emily Steiner describes the rich intersections between legal documents and English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. She argues that documentary culture (including charters, testaments, patents and seals) enabled writers to think in new ways about the conditions of textual production in late medieval England.

Author : Alastair J. Minnis
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859913864

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Late-medieval Religious Texts and Their Transmission by Alastair J. Minnis Pdf

11 studies of different types of late-medieval religious literature, in English, French and Latin.

Author : Helen Barr
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859914194

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Signes and Sothe by Helen Barr Pdf

An exploration through language of the literary, historical and social tradition of poetry inspired by Piers Plowman.

Author : Laura Lambdin,Robert Thomas Lambdin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313011115

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A Companion to Old and Middle English Literature by Laura Lambdin,Robert Thomas Lambdin Pdf

Old and Middle English literature can be obscure and challenging. So, too, can the vast body of criticism it has elicited. Yet the masters of medieval literature often drew on similar texts, since imitation was admired. For this reason, recent scholarship has often focused on the importance of genre. The genre in which a work was written can illuminate the author's intentions and the text's meaning. Read in light of a genre's parameters, a given work can be considered in relation to other works within the same category. This reference is a comprehensive overview of Old and Middle English literature. Chapters focus on particular genres, such as Allegorical Verse, Balladry, Beast Fable, Chronicle, Debate Poetry, Epic and Heroic, Lyric, Middle English Parody/Burlesque, Religious and Allegorical Verse, and Romance. Expert contributors define the primary characteristics of each genre and discuss relevant literary works. Chapters provide extensive reviews of scholarship and close with detailed bibliographies. A more thorough bibliography of major scholarly studies closes the book.

Author : Edward L. Risden,Karen Rathmell Moranski,Stephen Yandell
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820471070

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Prophet Margins by Edward L. Risden,Karen Rathmell Moranski,Stephen Yandell Pdf

While poets have traditionally inhabited cultural margins, prophets have brought poetic language to the center of cultural debate, not foretelling the future so much as diagnosing the present. This exciting collection of nine essays examines the range of social and political implications that inflects poetic discourse, from the Old English and Latin texts of the Anglo-Saxon world to the Scotland and England of the Renaissance. Whether saints' lives, Germanic heroic epics, chronicles, or satiric poems, the works discussed in this book retain their verbal power, if not their political influence, into our own time.

Author : James Countryman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P00394128U

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Imaginative Consequences in Piers Plowman by James Countryman Pdf

Author : Alastair Minnis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521515948

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Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature by Alastair Minnis Pdf

Minnis presents the fruits of a long-term engagement with the ways in which crucial ideological issues were deployed in vernacular texts. He addresses the crisis for vernacular translation precipitated by the Lollard heresy, Langland's views on indulgences, Chaucer's tales of suspicious saints and risible relics, and more.