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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 | : 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 | : Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135652899 |
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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 | : Thomas A. Goodmann |
Publisher | : Modern Language Association of America |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-12-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781603293396 |
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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 | : Claire Marshall |
Publisher | : Northcote House Pub Limited |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0746308604 |
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Features the full text of the poem entitled "Piers the Plowman," written by English poet William Langland (c. 1330-c. 1400) from the "Oxford Book of English Verse 1900" and provided online by Bibliomania.com Ltd.
Author | : William Langland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1928 |
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Author | : Robert Worth Frank |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Salvation in literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jason Crawford |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-01-19 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0191092118 |
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What is modernity? Where are modernitys points of origin? Where are its boundaries? And what lies beyond those boundaries? Allegory and Enchantment explores these broad questions by considering the work of English writers at the threshold of modernity, and by considering,in particular, the cultural forms these writers want to leave behind. From the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, many English writers fashion themselves as engaged in breaking away from an array of old idols: magic, superstition, tradition, the sacramental, the medieval. Many of these writers persistently use metaphors of disenchantment, of awakening from a broken spell, to describe their self-consciously modern orientation toward a medieval past. And many of them associate that repudiated past with the dynamics and conventions of allegory. In the hands of the major English practitioners of allegorical narrativeWilliam Langland, John Skelton, Edmund Spenser, and John Bunyanallegory shows signs of strain and disintegration. The work of these writers seems to suggest a story of modern emergence in which medieval allegory, with its search for divine order in the material world, breaks down under the pressure of modern disenchantment. But these four early modern writers also make possible other understandings of modernity. Each of them turns to allegory as a central organizing principle for his most ambitious poetic projects. Each discovers in the ancient forms of allegory a vital, powerful instrument of disenchantment. Each of them, therefore, opens up surprising possibilities: that allegory and modernity are inescapably linked; that the story of modern emergence is much older than the early modern period; and that the things modernity has tried to repudiatethe old enchantmentsare not as alien, or as absent, as they seem.
Author | : William Langland |
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Release | : 1935 |
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Author | : David Aers |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2015-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0268158002 |
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In Beyond Reformation? An Essay on William Langland’s Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity, David Aers presents a sustained and profound close reading of the final version of William Langland’s Piers Plowman, the most searching Christian poem of the Middle Ages in English. His reading, most unusually, seeks to explore the relations of Langland's poem to both medieval and early modern reformations together with the ending of Constantinian Christianity. Aers concentrates on Langland’s extraordinarily rich ecclesiastic politics and on his account of Christian virtues and the struggles of Conscience to discern how to go on in his often baffling culture. The poem’s complex allegory engages with most institutions and forms of life. In doing so, it explores moral languages and their relations to current practices and social tendencies. Langland’s vision conveys a strange sense that in his historical moment some moral concepts were being transformed and some traditions the author cherished were becoming unintelligible. Beyond Reformation? seeks to show how Langland grasped subtle shifts that were difficult to discern in the fourteenth century but were to become forces with a powerful future in shaping Western Christianity. The essay form that Aers has chosen for his book contributes to the effectiveness of the argument he develops in tandem with the structure of Langland’s poem: he sustains and tests his argument in a series of steps or “passus,” a Langlandian mode of proceeding. His essay unfolds an argument about medieval and early modern forms of Constantinian Christianity and reformation, and the way in which Langland's own vision of a secularizing, de-Christianizing late medieval church draws him toward the idea of a church of “fools,” beyond papacy, priesthood, hierarchy, and institutions. For Aers, Langland opens up serious diachronic issues concerning Christianity and culture. His essay includes a brief summary of the poem and modern translations alongside the original medieval English. It will challenge specialists on Langland's poem and supply valuable resources of thought for anyone who continues to struggle with the church of today.