A Guidebook to Piers Plowman

ISBN-13: 9780230507142 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 240 str.

Anna Baldwin

Opis

This comprehensive, readable guide works chronologically through the entire text of Piers Plowman and is designed to be read alongside it. Assuming no previous knowledge, it equips readers to enjoy and analyse the text for themselves by clarifying Langland's thinking, contextualising the religious, political and social issues raised, detailing the genres and sources he is using, and offering alternative critical interpretations at key points. An invaluable tool to help readers appreciate the originality and modernity of Langland's poetry.

Spis treści

List of Text Boxes.- List of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Abbreviations.- Introduction.- The First Vision.- The Second Vision.- The Third Vision.- The Fourth Vision.- The Fifth Vision.- The Sixth Vision.- The Seventh and Eighth Visions.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

ANNA BALDWIN is a teacher of English at Hills Rd Sixth Form College, Cambridge, UK. She was a lecturer in the English Department at the University of York, UK, for more than 10 years and subsequently a freelance lecturer and supervisor in the English Faculty of the University of Cambridge, UK.

Blurb

William Langland's poem Piers Plowman is one of the most popular and widely-studied Middle English works. This comprehensive, readable guide leads the student chronologically through the entire text and is designed to be read alongside it. Assuming no previous knowledge, readers are introduced to characters, plot and argument in way that enables them to enjoy and analyse the text for themselves.

A Guidebook to 'Piers Plowman':
* clarifies and explores Langland's thinking
* contextualises the religious, political and social issues he raises
* details the genres and sources the poet uses
* employs up-to-date bibliographical knowledge to offer alternative critical interpretations and suggest ways of relating these to the poet's key concerns
* explains Langland's historical, theological and psychological assumptions in helpful inserted text boxes
* features illustrations and suggestions for further reading.

Concise and approachable, this is an invaluable tool to help students appreciate the originality and modernity of Langland's poetry.