Piers Plowman Studies – serie
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4 produkter
4 produkter
Del 1 - Piers Plowman Studies
Theme of Government in Piers Plowman
Inbunden, Engelska, 1987
1 240 kr
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Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Del 3 - Piers Plowman Studies
Personification in Piers Plowman
Inbunden, Engelska, 1985
1 240 kr
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Del 9 - Piers Plowman Studies
Managing Language in Piers Plowman
Inbunden, Engelska, 1994
1 385 kr
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A fresh approach to ambiguities of language in Piers Plowman.Starting from a consideration of medieval definitions of the word as both logos and verbum, this reading of Piers Plowmanshows that both scholastic and mystic attitudes to language are at play within the poem.Concepts of authority, authorship, interpretation and translation are explored and it is made clear that these are inextricably linked, both in critical debates and in the text itself. The study progresses towards a conclusion that the full potential of language can be realised only when the desire to express things unambiguously is abandoned and ambiguity itself is allowed to be a power and a way of understanding. The rich fabric of Langland's text thusbecomes something to enjoy and participate in, rather than battle with or seek to control. Furthermore, it proves to be a meeting point for medieval and modern theories of text and reading, which are themselves enlivened by this complex and vivid poem.G.A. RUDD lectures in English at the University of Liverpool.
Del 11 - Piers Plowman Studies
Kindly Similitude
Marriage and Family in Piers Plowman
Inbunden, Engelska, 1995
1 385 kr
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The imagery of marriage and the family in Piers Plowmanrelated to contemporary social history.Kindly Similitude is the first study to offer a detailed reading of the many passages in Piers Plowman A, B, and C concerned with marriage and family, and to place them within the frameworks of contemporary social history, law, theology, exegesis, and literature. The author shows how Langland draws on the experiences of familial life both literally and metaphorically to further his expositions of law and love, nature and grace, the image of God in individuals and society, the use of time and material goods, the perversion of right relationships through covetise, and doing well in the active life. For Langland, an unmistakably public poet, the marital householdis inextricably linked to religious, economic, and political institutions. It reflects and transmits a divine exemplar of community, and plays a fundamental role in creating the society in which he and his audience must live. Thisimportant new critical approach complements the strong current attention to the poem's intellectual and ecclesiological contexts.Professor M. TERESA TAVORMINA is at the Department of English, Michigan State University.