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Author | : Hugh White |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780859912716 |
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The idea of the natural recurs throughout Piers Plowman. This book seeks to show that the idea holds a central place in Langland's understanding of the way in which man is saved. This understanding develops over the course of the poem under the kynde wit and kynde knowing, his presentation of Kynde as God, and his understanding of what is involved in being kynde. It shows how, for all the difficulties he finds with it, Langland remains faithful to the idea of the naturaland how that idea repays this faith, enabling profound meditation on the roles of man and God in respect of man's salvation and, more broadly, on the relationship between God and man.
Author | : Rebecca Ann Davis |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198778406 |
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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 | : Rebecca Davis |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2016-09-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 019108428X |
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Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature explores the relationship of divine creativity, poetry, and ethics in William Langland's fourteenth-century dream vision. These concerns converge in the poem's rich vocabulary of kynde, the familiar Middle English word for nature, broadly construed. But in a remarkable coinage, Langland also uses kynde to name nature's creator, who appears as a character in Piers Plowman. The stakes of this representation could not be greater: by depicting God as Kynde, that is, under the guise of creation itself, Langland explores the capacity of nature and of language to bear the plenitude of the divine. In doing so, he advances a daring claim for the spiritual value of literary art, including his own searching form of theological poetry. This claim challenges recent critical attention to the poem's discourses of disability and failure and reveals the poem's place in a long and diverse tradition of medieval humanism that originates in the twelfth century and, indeed, points forward to celebrations of nature and natural capacity in later periods. By contextualizing Langland's poetics of kynde within contemporary literary, philosophical, legal, and theological discourses, Rebecca Davis offers a new literary history for Piers Plowman that opens up many of the poem's most perplexing interpretative problems.
Author | : William Langland |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1996-12 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780812215618 |
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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
Author | : David Aers |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780859915557 |
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Historicist readings of the politics and ethics exhibited in a range of medieval texts including Chaucer, Malory and the York Corpus Christi plays. Critical historicist readings engage with the politics and ethics of selected medieval texts, addressing a wide range of literature and topics of enquiry: Langland, Chaucer, and the Pearl-poet, Malory and the York Corpus Christi plays; chivalric cultures, their forms of identity and mourning; and the politics, ethics and theology of some of the most fascinating writing in late medieval England. Intended as a tribute to Professor Derek Pearsall, andreflecting his major contribution to medieval literary criticism, they are an important addition to the critical and historical study of the period.DAVID AERS is James B. Duke Professor of English and Professor of Historical Theology at Duke University.
Author | : William Langland |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2018-09-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781726495486 |
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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 | : Sheryl Overmyer |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2016-10-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1498228992 |
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Thomas Aquinas and William Langland inherited the dynamic metaphor of journeying as a fundamental concept of the Christian life and harnessed it to animate their magisterial texts: the Summa Theologiae and Piers Plowman. Christians' journey back to God consists in the way of charity, yet it is far from straightforward or sequential. Rather, it is impinged upon by epistemic ambiguity, our willful continued habits of resistance, and inherent limitations on our perfection. In sum, the virtues are divine gifts humanly received, treasure in earthen vessels. Together these authors show the complexity we ourselves will find along this life's journey, enable our understanding to appreciate that complexity, and in limited ways cultivate in us the virtues they describe.
Author | : Hugh White |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780198187301 |
Download Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'Nature' is a highly important term in the ethical discourse of the Middle Ages and, as such, a leading concept in medieval literature. This book examines the moral status of the natural in writings by Alan of Lille, Jean de Meun, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and others, showinghow-particularly in the erotic sphere-the influences of nature are not always conceived as wholly benign. Though medieval thinkers often affirm an association of nature with reason, and therefore with the good, there is also an acknowledgement that the animal, the pre-rational, the instinctivewithin human beings may be validly considered natural. In fact, human beings may be thought to be urged almost ineluctably by the force of nature within them towards behaviour hostile to reason and the right.
Author | : Brian Murdoch |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 085991559X |
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A study of the use of medieval literary texts to explain the Fall and Redemption, the universality of original sin, and the identity of mankind with Adam and Eve.
Author | : Robert Worth Frank |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1957 |
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