Emily Steiner

Reading Piers Plowman (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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, Christian 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107239838
• Artikelnr.: 39061263

Autorenporträt

Emily Steiner is Associate Professor of English Literature and an award-winning teacher at the University of Pennsylvania. She is presently co-editor (with Rebecca Davis and Lawrence Warner) of the Yearbook of Langland Studies. She is the author of Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Value
3. Community
4. Learning
5. Practice
6. Belief
7. Institutions.

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1. Introduction; 2. Value; 3. Community; 4. Learning; 5. Practice; 6. Belief; 7. Institutions.

Rezensionen

'This vigorous and ingenious reading of Piers Plowman manages in compressed compass to convey a wide range of ideas articulated by the poem, implied through its poetic strategies, and associated with late-medieval Christianity. Summing up: recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.' A. Galloway, Choice