Piers Plowman
eBook - ePub

Piers Plowman

Critical Approaches

  1. 374 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Piers Plowman

Critical Approaches

About this book

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. The book's essays reflect the diversity, and vigour of criticism in the field of medieval literature and opens new perspectives in the study of one of its finest poems.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Original Title Page
  6. Original Copyright Page
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Foreword
  9. Abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. Some Aspects of the Process of Revision in Piers Plowman
  12. 2. The Tearing of the Pardon
  13. 3. Justice, Kingship and the Good Life in the Second Part of Piers Plowman
  14. 4. Words, Works and Will: Theme and Structure in Piers Plowman
  15. 5. Conscience: the Frustration of Allegory
  16. 6. Piers and the Image of God in Man
  17. 7. The Rôle of the Dreamer in Piers Plowman
  18. 8. Action and Contemplation in Piers Plowman
  19. 9. The Langland Country
  20. 10. Charity in Piers Plowman
  21. 11. Satire in Piers Plowman
  22. 12. Chaucer’s Contemporary
  23. Notes
  24. Index