Piers Plowman

Critical Approaches
Herausgeber: Hussey, S. S.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1969 Piers Plowman is a collection of 12 original essays by leading academics on Piers Plowman. As a combined volume, this collection forms a substantial introduction and a comprehensive account of the poem, its background and textual problems. The book's essays reflect the diversity, and vigour of criticism in the field of medieval literature and opens new perspectives in the study of one of its finest poems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9780367202699
• ISBN-10: 0367202697
• Artikelnr.: 67662857

Autorenporträt

S.S. Hussey

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction 1 Some Aspects of the Process of Revision in Piers
Plowman 2. The Tearing of the Pardon 3. Justice, Kingship and the Good Life
in the Second Part of Piers Plowman 4. Words, Works and Will: Theme and
Structure in Piers Plowman 5. Conscience: The Frustration of Allegory 6.
Piers and the Image of God in Man 7. The Rôle of the Dreamer in Piers
Plowman 8. Action and Contemplation in Piers Plowman 9. The Langland
Country 10. Charity in Piers Plowman 11. Satire in Piers Plowman 12.
Chaucer's Contemporary Notes Index