Piers Plowman: Critical Approaches

ISBN-13: 9780367202651 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 374 str.

S. S. Hussey

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Foreword  Introduction  1 Some Aspects of the Process of Revision in Piers Plowman  2. The Tearing of the Pardon  3. Justice, Kingship and the Good Life in the Second Part of Piers Plowman  4. Words, Works and Will: Theme and Structure in Piers Plowman  5. Conscience: The Frustration of Allegory  6. Piers and the Image of God in Man  7. The Rôle of the Dreamer in Piers Plowman  8. Action and Contemplation in Piers Plowman  9. The Langland Country  10. Charity in Piers Plowman  11. Satire in Piers Plowman  12. Chaucer’s Contemporary  Notes  Index

O autorze

S.S. Hussey