Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman

Zusatztext this is a serious and thoughtful book, one that offers a lot of local insight into Piers Plowman. Informationen zum Autor Sarah Wood completed her Masters and D.Phil. at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She currently teaches Old and Middle English literature at University College London. Klappentext By showing how Langland transformed Conscience as he composed the A, B and C texts of Piers Plowman, Sarah Wood offers a new approach to reading the serial versions of the poem. While the three versions have customarily been read in parallel-text formats, she demonstrates that Langland's revisions are newly comprehensible if read in sequence. Zusammenfassung By showing how Langland transformed Conscience as he composed the A, B and C texts of Piers Plowman, Sarah Wood offers a new approach to reading the serial versions of the poem. While the three versions have customarily been read in parallel-text formats, she demonstrates that Langland's revisions are newly comprehensible if read in sequence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Note on the text Introduction: Conscience and personification in Piers Plowman 1: 'Who may scape þe sclaundre': Scandal, complaint and invective in B 3-4 2: Penitential texts and vernacular Conscience in B 13-14 3: 'Ecce rex': Conscience and homiletic discourse in B 19 4: 'To a lord for a lettre leue to haue': Conscience and the friars in B 20 5: New modes in the C text: Clerical 'suffraunce' and vernacular counsel 6: Conscience in the versions of Piers Plowman Conclusion: Conscience and the composition of Piers Plowman Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Wood
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2012
• EAN: 9780199653768
• ISBN: 978-0-19-965376-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Oxford English Monographs; Oxford English Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets