Sarah Wood

Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman

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Produktbeschreibung

By showing how Langland transformed Conscience as he composed the A, B and C texts of Piers Plowman, Sarah Wood offers a new approach to reading the serial versions of the poem. While the three versions have customarily been read in parallel-text formats, she demonstrates that Langland's revisions are newly comprehensible if read in sequence.

Produktdetails

• Oxford English Monographs
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 149mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780199653768
• ISBN-10: 0199653763
• Artikelnr.: 47866960

Autorenporträt

Sarah Wood completed her Masters and D.Phil. at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She currently teaches Old and Middle English literature at University College London.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* List of abbreviations
* Note on the text
* Introduction: Conscience and personification in Piers Plowman
* 1: 'Who may scape þe sclaundre': Scandal, complaint and invective in
B 3-4
* 2: Penitential texts and vernacular Conscience in B 13-14
* 3: 'Ecce rex': Conscience and homiletic discourse in B 19
* 4: 'To a lord for a lettre leue to haue': Conscience and the friars
in B 20
* 5: New modes in the C text: Clerical 'suffraunce' and vernacular
counsel
* 6: Conscience in the versions of Piers Plowman
* Conclusion: Conscience and the composition of Piers Plowman
* Bibliography