The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive 7

Author : Hoyt N. Duggan
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843840944

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The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive 7 by Hoyt N. Duggan Pdf

This CD-ROM continues the ongoing collaborative project devoted to the electronic publication of the medieval and Renaissance witnesses to William Langland's Piers Plowman. The edition of the B-version manuscript known as `R' is especially important because of its status as the only reliable witness for one of the two surviving branches of the B tradition. As is usual for the series, the edited text of the manuscript is presented in four different views -- a diplomatic type-facsimile; a scribal text with indications of scribal error; a critical text with lapsus calami corrected; and an AllTags view that shows all of the editorial interventions on one screen -- along with colour facsimiles and hyper-textual linkages to enable the display of the complex relationships to other B witnesses. Robert Adams is Professor of English at Sam Houston State University, Texas.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:699316286

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Piers Plowman Electronic Archive by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Wood
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781914049071

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Piers Plowman and Its Manuscript Tradition by Sarah Wood Pdf

The first full survey of crucial witnesses to the reception of Piers Plowman.

Author : Lawrence Warner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Richard J. Finneran
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 047210828X

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Yeats by Richard J. Finneran Pdf

Includes a special section on teaching Yeats

Author : Eric B. Song
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781503631410

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Love against Substitution by Eric B. Song Pdf

Are we unique as individuals, or are we replaceable? Seventeenth-century English literature pursues these questions through depictions of marriage. The writings studied in this book elevate a love between two individuals who deem each other to be unique to the point of being irreplaceable, and this vocabulary allows writers to put affective pressure on the meaning of marriage as Pauline theology defines it. Stubbornly individual, love threatens to short-circuit marriage's function in directing intimate feelings toward a communal experience of Christ's love. The literary project of testing the meaning of marriage proved to be urgent work throughout the seventeenth century. Monarchy itself was put on trial in this century, and so was the usefulness of marriage in linking Christian belief with the legitimacy of hereditary succession. Starting at the end of the sixteenth century with Edmund Spenser, and then exploring works by William Shakespeare, William Davenant, John Milton, Lucy Hutchinson, and Aphra Behn, Eric Song offers a new account of how notions of unique personhood became embedded in a literary way of thinking and feeling about marriage.

Author : Ian Cornelius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107154100

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Reconstructing Alliterative Verse by Ian Cornelius Pdf

This book explores the history and development of English alliterative meter, and considers why the form has remained so enigmatic.

Author : Siân Echard,Stephen Partridge,Stephen Bradford Partridge
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802087566

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The Book Unbound by Siân Echard,Stephen Partridge,Stephen Bradford Partridge Pdf

Contemporaries of Erasmus contains biographical information about more than 1900 people mentioned in the correspondence and other writings of Erasmus. This paperback edition is a reprint of the three-volume set published between 1985 and 1987. The volumes have been combined into a single volume ? without any editorial changes ? to provide a manageable and affordable edition of a magisterial work. The remarkable breadth of Erasmus? contacts throughout his life is reflected in this unique volume. Differing substantially from the national biographical dictionaries that restrict themselves to major figures, Contemporaries of Erasmus combines the famous with the obscure ? popes and politicians, artists and poets, knights and theologians ? covering every individual mentioned whose death occurred after the year 1450. Well known figures include Martin Luther, King Henry VIII, Machiavelli, Popes Nicholas V and Peter IV, and Emperor Charles V. Dipping into the pages of this fully illustrated volume will intrigue and delight the casual reader, but the combined volume will also be an indispensible tool for those who have searched in vain for a biographical dictionary of the Renaissance and the Reformation.

Author : Rosanne P. Gasse
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443889704

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The Feral Piers by Rosanne P. Gasse Pdf

What do we mean when we talk about the text of Piers Plowman? What is the concept of a literary text when that construct exists in so many variant and feral forms, as is the case for the multiple modern editorial reconstructions and the more than fifty surviving manuscripts and early print editions of Piers Plowman? How do the anonymous roles of author, scribe, and reader intersect to create the experience of the text? How can we judge a pre-modern text’s reception history if we do not know exactly what it was that the early reader was responding to? This book takes a daring and innovative approach to answering such questions as these. It is a micro-study of one particular historic version of Piers Plowman, its scribe, and its fifteenth and sixteenth-century readers: British Library Cotton Caligula A XI, a manuscript which combines the C, A, and B texts of the poem, and which was likely copied out in the first quarter of the fifteenth century. It reads the Cotton Piers not as an ossified relic whose value lies in what can be gleaned from it about modes of scribal production and Cot’s textual relationship to other Piers manuscripts, but as a living text meant to be experienced and enjoyed as a work of literature in its own right. In gaining a better comprehension at the micro-level of this particular historic version, a better understanding of the whole concept of Piers Plowman itself emerges.

Author : William Langland
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476618173

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Piers Plowman by William Langland Pdf

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 : Bridget Whearty
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781503634190

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Digital Codicology by Bridget Whearty Pdf

Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever—thanks to digital copies online. Yet for all that widespread digitization has fundamentally transformed how we connect with the medieval past, we understand very little about what these digital objects really are. We rarely consider how they are made or who makes them. This case study-rich book demystifies digitization, revealing what it's like to remake medieval books online and connecting modern digital manuscripts to their much longer media history, from print, to photography, to the rise of the internet. Examining classic late-1990s projects like Digital Scriptorium 1.0 alongside late-2010s initiatives like Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis, and world-famous projects created by the British Library, Corpus Christi College Cambridge, Stanford University, and the Walters Art Museum against in-house digitizations performed in lesser-studied libraries, Whearty tells never-before-published narratives about globally important digital manuscript archives. Drawing together medieval literature, manuscript studies, digital humanities, and imaging sciences, Whearty shines a spotlight on the hidden expert labor responsible for today's revolutionary digital access to medieval culture. Ultimately, this book argues that centering the modern labor and laborers at the heart of digital cultural heritage fosters a more just and more rigorous future for medieval, manuscript, and media studies.

Author : Thomas A. Goodmann
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Orietta Da Rold,Elaine Treharne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107102460

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts by Orietta Da Rold,Elaine Treharne Pdf

Explains the methods and knowledge required to understand how, why, and for whom manuscripts were made in medieval Britain.

Author : George Kane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429582707

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Middle English Literature by George Kane Pdf

Originally published in 1951 Middle English Literature applies methods of literary evaluation to certain Middle English works. Arguing that previous literary criticism has largely focused on the commentary of their historical, social, philological and religious content, the book suggests that it has led to a thinking that Middle English literature is without artistic value and therefore cannot be compared effectively with later works of the fourteenth and fifteenth century. While traditional analysis has been beneficial to scientific and historical findings, this text seeks to look deeper into the artistic merits of the works and the authors that wrote them, arguing that the authors of these Middle English texts, wrote with the same motivations and experiences of these later authors which in turn informed the artistic basis of these Middle English works. The book looks at Middle English texts through three main areas: the Metrical Romances, the Religious Lyrics and Piers Plowman.

Author : Dieter Mehl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317871552

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English Literature in the Age of Chaucer by Dieter Mehl Pdf

Written in an engaging and accessible manner, English Literature in the Age of Chaucer serves as both a lucid introduction to Middle English literature for those coming fresh to the study of earlier English writing, and as a stimulating examination of the themes, traditions and the literary achievement of a number of particulary original and interesting authors. In addition to detailed and sensitive treatment of Chaucer's major works, the book includes chapters on his chief contemporaries, such as John Gower, William Langland and the Gawain-poet. It also examines the often underrated contribution to the English literary tradition of his successors John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, as well as the interesting and original work of the Scottish poets, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas, who also claim Chaucer as their model. Apart from the narrative poetry of Chaucer and his followers, the book also contains chapters on the Middle English lyric; Middle English prose, including Mandeville's travels; the most original and imaginative writings of the Middle English mystics, in particular Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe; and Thomas Malory's impressive prose compilation of Arthurian stories.