Reading Piers Plowman Hardback (Reading Writers and their Work) - Hardcover

Steiner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521868203 ISBN 13: 9780521868204

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

The great fourteenth-century poem Piers Plowman is one of the most dazzling literary creations of the English Middle Ages. Emily Steiner's book, indispensable to students and scholars, shows readers how to navigate the poem's experimental poetics, as well as its complex ideas about love, salvation and social justice.

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'This vigorous and ingenious reading of Piers Plowman manages in compressed compass to convey a wide range of ideas articulated by the poem, implied through its poetic strategies, and associated with late-medieval Christianity. Summing up: recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.' A. Galloway, Choice

'In a world of texts that look to take readers through the whole of Piers Plowman, Steiner's contribution stands out as an ideal example. Historically grounded, accessible, engaging, and often exciting, it will no doubt prove a classroom staple. Students, instructors, and scholars will want to include this in their collections and will surely rely on it as a welcome resource with frequency and gratitude.' The Medieval Review

Biografía del autor:

Emily Steiner is Associate Professor of English Literature and an award-winning teacher at the University of Pennsylvania. She is presently co-editor (with Rebecca Davis and Lawrence Warner) of the Yearbook of Langland Studies. She is the author of Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0521868203
• ISBN 13: 9780521868204
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 273