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Reading Piers Plowman

By (author) Emily Steiner

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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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Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Dispatched in aprox 4-8 WEEKS as local supplier is out of stock
Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Published date | 9 May 2013
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 273
Dimensions | 228 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 470g
ISBN | 978-0-5216-8783-6
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BISAC | literary criticism / european / english, irish, scottish, welsh

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