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AN INTRODUCTION TO PIERS PLOWMAN
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| By: |
Michael A. Calabrese |
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Paperback |
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£30.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0813064570 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780813064574 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2017 |
| Series: |
New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions |
| Pages: |
392 |
| Description: |
William Langland's poem Piers Plowman has found new critical and pedagogic life in the twenty-first century. Engaging with culture, religion, community, work, and the histories of government and popular revolt, the poem exists in three versions. This is the first comprehensive introduction to Langland's work that covers all three iterations, outlining the various changes that occurred between each. |
| Synopsis: |
William Langland's allegorical poem Piers Plowman has found new critical and pedagogic life in the twenty-first century. Engaging with culture, religion, community, work, and the histories of government and popular revolt, the poem exists in three versions: the earliest, short A text (c. 1367-70), the much longer B text (c. 1377-79), and the later revision, the C text (c. 1382-87). Studies have frequently focused on the B text, leaving a gap in available resources for students of the poem. This is the first comprehensive introduction to Langland's masterful work that covers all three iterations, outlining the various changes that occurred between each. It thoroughly explores the versions in parallel study and offers new perspectives and approaches to the poem as an evolving whole. Useful for individuals reading any version of Piers Plowman, this engaging guide offers a much-needed navigational summary, a chronology of historic events relevant to the poem, biographical information about Langland and his work in context with his contemporaries, and keys to characters and to proper pronunciation. Michael Calabrese's definitive and refreshingly lively volume allows readers to navigate the three versions of this daunting poem and to contextualize it within the literary history of Western culture.A volume in the series New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions, edited by R. Barton Palmer and Tison Pugh |
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US |
| Imprint: |
University Press of Florida |
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