Reading Piers Plowman
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Reading Writers and their Work
ISBN-10
0521687837
ISBN-13
9780521687836
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 9th, 2013
Print length
273 Pages
Weight
470 grams
Dimensions
23.10 x 15.60 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: classical, early & medievalLiterary studies: poetry & poets
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The great fourteenth-century poem Piers Plowman is one of the most dazzling literary creations of the English Middle Ages. Emily Steiner's book, indispensable to students and scholars, shows readers how to navigate the poem's experimental poetics, as well as its complex ideas about love, salvation and social justice.
Reading Piers Plowman is an indispensable scholarly guide to a magnificent and notoriously difficult medieval poem. With Piers Plowman, the fourteenth-century poet William Langland proved that English verse could be at once spiritually electrifying and intellectually rigorous, capable of imagining society in its totality while at the same time exploring heady ideas about language, theology and culture. In her study of Piers Plowman, Emily Steiner explores how Langland''s ambitious poetics emerged in dialogue with contemporary ideas; for example, about political counsel and gender, the ethics of poverty, secular and pagan learning, lordship and servitude, and the long history of Christianity. Lucid and comprehensive, Steiner''s study teaches us to stay alert to the poem''s stunning effects while still making sense of its literary and historical contexts.
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