Piers Plowman - Critical Approaches

Informationen zum Autor S.S. Hussey Zusammenfassung Originally published in 1969 Piers Plowman is a collection of 12 original essays by leading academics on Piers Plowman. As a combined volume, this collection forms a substantial introduction and a comprehensive account of the poem, its background and textual problems. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Introduction 1 Some Aspects of the Process of Revision in Piers Plowman 2. The Tearing of the Pardon 3. Justice, Kingship and the Good Life in the Second Part of Piers Plowman 4. Words, Works and Will: Theme and Structure in Piers Plowman 5. Conscience: The Frustration of Allegory 6. Piers and the Image of God in Man 7. The Rôle of the Dreamer in Piers Plowman 8. Action and Contemplation in Piers Plowman 9. The Langland Country 10. Charity in Piers Plowman 11. Satire in Piers Plowman 12. Chaucer’s Contemporary Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: S.S. Hussey
• Assisted by: S.S. Hussey (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367202651
• ISBN: 978-0-367-20265-1
• No. of pages: 378
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets