Reading Piers Plowman - A Reader''s Guide

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext A lucid and comprehensive study of Piers Plowman, one of the most magnificent literary works of the Middle Ages. Zusammenfassung The great fourteenth-century poem Piers Plowman is one of the most dazzling literary creations of the English Middle Ages. Emily Steiner's book! indispensable to students and scholars! shows readers how to navigate the poem's experimental poetics! as well as its complex ideas about love! salvation and social justice. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Value; 3. Community; 4. Learning; 5. Practice; 6. Belief; 7. Institutions.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Steiner, Emily (University of Pennsylvania) Steiner, Steiner Emily
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2013
• EAN: 9780521868204
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86820-4
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Reading Writers and their Work
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / 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