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activist
allegory
Alliterative poetry
An Introduction to Piers Plowman
anti-fraternal satire
Author_Michael A. Calabrese
B
bell the cat
Bible
bribery
bull
C Text
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Christ
church
civil law
conscience
covetousness
crucifixion
Dobet
Dowel
dream
envy
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field of folk
fourteenth century
free will
friar
gluttony
God
Gospels
Jesus
Job
John But
King Richard II
Lady Mede
lechery
Lucifer
marriage
Marxism
medieval
Michael Calabrese
Middle English literature
Moses
peace
pena
penance
pilgrimage
plague
Pope
pre-reformation
pride
Psalms
religion
repentance
Rokele
salvation
Samaritan
Seven Deadly Sins
Simony
sloth
social justice
St. Paul
statute of labourers
theology
Trajan
Truth
violence
William Langland
wrath
Product details
- ISBN 9780813064574
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 24 Oct 2017
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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William Langland’s allegorical poem Piers Plowman has found new critical and pedagogic life in the twenty-first century. Engaging with culture, religion, community, work, and the histories of government and popular revolt, the poem exists in three versions: the earliest, short A text (c. 1367-70), the much longer B text (c. 1377–79), and the later revision, the C text (c. 1382-87). Studies have frequently focused on the B text, leaving a gap in available resources for students of the poem. This is the first comprehensive introduction to Langland’s masterful work that covers all three iterations, outlining the various changes that occurred between each. It thoroughly explores the versions in parallel study and offers new perspectives and approaches to the poem as an evolving whole.
Useful for individuals reading any version of Piers Plowman, this engaging guide offers a much-needed navigational summary, a chronology of historic events relevant to the poem, biographical information about Langland and his work in context with his contemporaries, and keys to characters and to proper pronunciation. Michael Calabrese’s definitive and refreshingly lively volume allows readers to navigate the three versions of this daunting poem and to contextualize it within the literary history of Western culture.
A volume in the series New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions, edited by R. Barton Palmer and Tison Pugh
Useful for individuals reading any version of Piers Plowman, this engaging guide offers a much-needed navigational summary, a chronology of historic events relevant to the poem, biographical information about Langland and his work in context with his contemporaries, and keys to characters and to proper pronunciation. Michael Calabrese’s definitive and refreshingly lively volume allows readers to navigate the three versions of this daunting poem and to contextualize it within the literary history of Western culture.
A volume in the series New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions, edited by R. Barton Palmer and Tison Pugh
Michael Calabrese, professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles, is author of Chaucer's Ovidian Arts of Love.
