The Myth Of Piers Plowman

Author : Lawrence Warner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107043633

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The Myth of Piers Plowman by Lawrence Warner Pdf

"Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by considering the possibility that Langland wrote a romance about a werewolf and bear-suited lovers, and he goes on to explore the methods of the poem's localization, and medieval readers' particular interest in its Latinity. Warner shows that the 'Protestant Piers' was a reaction against the poem's oral mode of transmission, reveals the extensive eighteenth-century textual scholarship on the poem by figures including the maligned Chaucereditor John Urry, and contextualizes its first modernization by a literary forger inspired by the 1790s Shakespeare controversies. This lively account of Piers Plowman challenges the way the poem has traditionally been read and understood"--

Author : Lawrence Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1107784549

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The Myth of Piers Plowman by Lawrence Warner Pdf

A revisionary account of the powerful myths that grew up around the production and reception of the great medieval poem.

Author : E. M. W. Tillyard
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789128437

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Myth and the English Mind by E. M. W. Tillyard Pdf

Presented in this volume are the Clark Lectures which Dr. Tillyard gave in Cambridge in 1959-1960, as delivered. The lectures range over a wide field, from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century, and are given unity in their concern with various myths and the literary embodiment of these myths in different periods of English literature.

Author : William Langland,George Economou
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0812215613

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William Langland's "Piers Plowman" by William Langland,George Economou Pdf

"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 : Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : English literature
ISBN : OCLC:1423648996

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Myth and the English Mind by Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard Pdf

Author : C. David Benson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271046201

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Public Piers Plowman by C. David Benson Pdf

"Public Piers Plowman is divided into two parts. The first is an extended essay on what Benson calls the "Langland myth." He traces the evolution of Piers scholarship and demonstrates the limitations of treating Piers as a direct expression of the poet's experience and intellectual views." "In the second part Benson offers an alternative history for the poem. Benson approaches it from a broader public context, using representative examples from vernacular writing, parish art, and civic practices. He argues that Piers reached a wide contemporary audience because, far from being an account only of the author's own life and opinions, it was securely rooted in the common culture of its time and place."--Jacket.

Author : Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135652821

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William Langland's Piers Plowman by Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith Pdf

This collection of newly written essays provides a fresh examination of some of the issues central to the study of this poem, including an exploration of its relevance to contemporary literary theory and to 14th century culture and ideology.

Author : Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135652890

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William Langland's Piers Plowman by Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith Pdf

This collection of newly written essays provides a fresh examination of some of the issues central to the study of this poem, including an exploration of its relevance to contemporary literary theory and to 14th century culture and ideology.

Author : William Langland
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1726495485

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Piers Plowman by William Langland Pdf

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 : E M W (Eustace Mandevill Tillyard
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014207088

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Myth and the English Mind by E M W (Eustace Mandevill Tillyard Pdf

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Author : Arvind Thomas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487502461

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Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law by Arvind Thomas Pdf

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 A. Goodmann
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603293419

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Approaches to Teaching Langland's Piers Plowman by Thomas A. Goodmann Pdf

A series of dream visions, Piers Plowman is a moral reckoning of the whole of medieval England, in which every part of society--from church and king to every sort of "folk"--is considered in the light of the narrator's interpretation of Christian revelation. The Middle English poem, rich and beautiful, is a particular challenge to teach: it exists in three versions, lacks a continuous narrative, is written in a West Midlands dialect, weaves a complex allegory, and treats complicated social and political issues, such as labor, Lollardy, and popular uprising. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," discusses the different versions, critical and classroom editions, and translations of the poem, as well as the many secondary sources. Part 2, "Approaches," helps students engage with the poem's versification, understand its protagonist and its treatment of poverty and equity, and discern connections to the work of other medieval poets, such as Dante and Chaucer.

Author : Eric Weiskott
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781535852791

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Gale Researcher Guide for: William Langland's Piers Plowman by Eric Weiskott Pdf

Gale Researcher Guide for: William Langland's Piers Plowman is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Author : Andrew Cole,Andrew Galloway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107009189

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The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman by Andrew Cole,Andrew Galloway Pdf

A comprehensive study of the fascinating medieval poem Piers Plowman, consolidating the most enduring work with groundbreaking new research.

Author : Alfred J. Andrea,Andrew Holt
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624664052

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Seven Myths of the Crusades by Alfred J. Andrea,Andrew Holt Pdf

"Seven Myths of the Crusades' rebuttal of the persistent and multifarious misconceptions associated with topics including the First Crusade, anti-Judaism and the Crusades, the crusader states, the Children's Crusade, the Templars and past and present Islamic-Christian relations proves, once and for all, that real history is far more fascinating than conspiracy theories, pseudo-history and myth-mongering. This book is a powerful witness to the dangers of the misappropriation and misinterpretation of the past and the false parallels so often drawn between the crusades and later historical events ranging from nineteenth-century colonialism to the protest movements of the 1960s to the events of 9/11. This volume's authors have venerable track records in teaching and researching the crusading movement, and anyone curious about the crusades would do well to start here." —Jessalynn Bird, Dominican University, co-Editor of Crusade and Christendom