This volume offers original readings of Piers Plowman and rethinks the genre of allegorical narrative in the Middle Ages. It presents five studies of allegorical narratives with implications for different aspects of medieval culture.
This volume offers original readings of Piers Plowman and rethinks the genre of allegorical narrative in the Middle Ages. It presents five studies of allegorical narratives with implications for different aspects of medieval culture.
Nicolette Zeeman is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at King's College and in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. Author of Piers Plowman and the Medieval Discourse of Desire (2006), she co-edited with Jean Michel Massing and contributed to King's College Chapel 1515-2015: Art, Music and Religion in Cambridge (2014), and, with Dallas Denery II and Kantik Ghosh, Uncertain Knowledge: Scepticism, Relativism, and Doubt in the Middle Ages (2014). She is interested in and has also published on Chaucer, medieval literary theory, song, scepticism, mythography, and the chivalric 'idol'. She is working on personification, the Gawain Poet, and developing a project on the theory of the idol in later medieval culture.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Allegory and Undoing Excursus: Personifications in Dialogue and Debate Part 1 1: The Hypocritical Figure 2: Ethical Adjacency in Piers Plowman Part 2 3: Animate Oppositions 4: Opposition and Debate in Piers Plowman Part 3 5: Anger, Insult, and Rebuff 6: Sharp Words and Violent Gestures in Piers Plowman Part 4 7: Natural Entropy and Piers Plowman 8: The Sad Vices Part 5 9: Piers Plowman and the Grail Romances 10: Tales of Piers and Perceval: Langland, Romance Aventure, and Doing well Conclusion: Undoing Well Appendix: Langland and Marguerite Porete
Introduction: Allegory and Undoing Excursus: Personifications in Dialogue and Debate Part 1 1: The Hypocritical Figure 2: Ethical Adjacency in Piers Plowman Part 2 3: Animate Oppositions 4: Opposition and Debate in Piers Plowman Part 3 5: Anger, Insult, and Rebuff 6: Sharp Words and Violent Gestures in Piers Plowman Part 4 7: Natural Entropy and Piers Plowman 8: The Sad Vices Part 5 9: Piers Plowman and the Grail Romances 10: Tales of Piers and Perceval: Langland, Romance Aventure, and Doing well Conclusion: Undoing Well Appendix: Langland and Marguerite Porete
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