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Reading Piers Plowman

Reading Piers Plowman

Steiner, Emily

Paperback

Series: Reading Writers and Their Work

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0521687837
ISBN13: 9780521687836
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 9 2013
Pages: 273
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Reading Piers Plowman is an indispensable scholarly guide to a magnificent - and notoriously difficult - medieval poem. With Piers Plowman, the fourteenth-century poet William Langland proved that English verse could be at once spiritually electrifying and intellectually rigorous, capable of imagining society in its totality while at the same time exploring heady ideas about language, theology and culture. In her study of Piers Plowman, Emily Steiner explores how Langland's ambitious poetics emerged in dialogue with contemporary ideas; for example, about political counsel and gender, the ethics of poverty, secular and pagan learning, lordship and servitude, and the long history of Christianity. Lucid and comprehensive, Steiner's study teaches us to stay alert to the poem's stunning effects while still making sense of its literary and historical contexts.

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