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'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire

'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire

Zeeman, Nicolette

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Book 59

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0521856108
ISBN13: 9780521856102
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 20 2006
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This ambitious work links William Langland's great poem Piers Plowman to wider medieval enquiries into the nature of intellectual and spiritual desire. Nicolette Zeeman traces the history of psychology and its iconography in medieval devotional and theological literature, stretching back to St Augustine and Gregory the Great, and shows how an understanding of these traditions opens up a fresh reading of Piers Plowman. She challenges the consensus according to which the poem narrates an essentially positive 'education' of the will, and reveals instead a narrative of desire emerging from rebuke, loss and denial. This radical reading revolutionises our thinking about Piers Plowman, and sheds light on the history of medieval psychology, devotion, pastoral care, medieval textual theory and literary history.

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