Emily Steiner

Reading Piers Plowman

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ISBN 13:: 9780521687836
author:: Emily Steiner
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Cambridge University Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2013
Pages:: 273
Dimensions:: 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.4 centimetres (0
Genre:: Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticsm, European,
Condition:: New
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Reading Piers Plowman offers a scholarly guide to this magnificent medieval poem. William Langland's fourteenth-century masterpiece explores society in its totality while delving into heady ideas about language, theology and culture.

This study by Emily Steiner examines how Langland's ambitious poetics emerged in dialogue with contemporary ideas, including those on political counsel, gender, ethics of poverty, secular learning, lordship and servitude, and the history of Christianity. With a lucid and comprehensive approach, Steiner helps readers stay alert to the poem's stunning effects while understanding its literary and historical contexts.

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