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Author : William Elford Rogers
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813210925
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 : William Langland,George Economou
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0812215613
"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 : Edward Vasta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Christian poetry, English (Middle)
ISBN : UOM:39015002147380
Author : Edward Vasta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:216982662
Author : Rebecca Ann Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198778400
Rebecca Davis explores the relationship of divine creativity, poetry, and ethics in William Langland's fourteenth-century dream vision. By contextualizing Langland's poetics of kynde (or nature) within contemporary literary, philosophical, legal, and theological discourses, she opens up many of the poem's most perplexing interpretative problems.
Author : Curtis A. Gruenler
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780268101657
In this book, Curtis Gruenler proposes that the concept of the enigmatic, latent in a wide range of medieval thinking about literature, can help us better understand in medieval terms much of the era’s most enduring literature, from the riddles of the Anglo-Saxon bishop Aldhelm to the great vernacular works of Dante, Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, and, above all, Langland’s Piers Plowman. Riddles, rhetoric, and theology—the three fields of meaning of aenigma in medieval Latin—map a way of thinking about reading and writing obscure literature that was widely shared across the Middle Ages. The poetics of enigma links inquiry about language by theologians with theologically ambitious literature. Each sense of enigma brings out an aspect of this poetics. The playfulness of riddling, both oral and literate, was joined to a Christian vision of literature by Aldhelm and the Old English riddles of the Exeter Book. Defined in rhetoric as an obscure allegory, enigma was condemned by classical authorities but resurrected under the influence of Augustine as an aid to contemplation. Its theological significance follows from a favorite biblical verse among medieval theologians, “We see now through a mirror in an enigma, then face to face” (1 Cor. 13:12). Along with other examples of the poetics of enigma, Piers Plowman can be seen as a culmination of centuries of reflection on the importance of obscure language for knowing and participating in endless mysteries of divinity and humanity and a bridge to the importance of the enigmatic in modern literature. This book will be especially useful for scholars and undergraduate students interested in medieval European literature, literary theory, and contemplative theology.
Author : William Langland
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0520046323
Author : William Langland
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1726495485
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 : Thomas Patrick Dunning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Religion in literature
ISBN : UOM:39015000682271
Author : Gillian Rudd
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859913929
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 : Arvind Thomas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487502461
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.
Author : Thomas Patrick Dunning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:185456782
Author : William Langland
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786495030
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 : Robert Worth Frank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Christian poetry, English (Middle)
ISBN : UCAL:B4281799
Author : T. P. Dunning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 196?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:847005900