[PDF] William Langland eBook

Author : William Langland
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 2006-01-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0141960922

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Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.

Author : William Langland
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 1996-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780812215618

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"A gifted poet has given us an astute, adroit, vigorous, inviting, eminently readable translation. . . . The challenging gamut of Langland's language . . . has here been rendered with blessed energy and precision. Economou has indeed Done-Best."—Allen Mandelbaum

Author : William Langland
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 26,38 MB
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0786495030

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William Langland's 14th-century poem Piers Plowman, a disturbing and often humorous commentary on corruption and greed, remains meaningful today. The allegorical work revolves around the narrator's quest to live a good life, and takes the form of a series of dreams in which Piers, the honest plowman, appears in various guises. Characters such as Conscience, Fidelity and Charity, alongside Falsehood and Guile, are instantly recognizable as our present-day politicians and celebrities, friends and neighbors. Social issues are confronted, including governance, economic relations, criminal justice, marital relations and the limits of academic learning, as well as religious belief and the natural world. This new verse translation from the Middle English preserves the energy, imagery and intent of the original, and retains its alliterative style. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : William Langland
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2018-09-07
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ISBN : 9781726495486

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Piers Plowman By William Langland Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.

Author : Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135652899

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This collection of newly written essays provides a fresh examination of some of the issues central to the study of this poem, including an exploration of its relevance to contemporary literary theory and to 14th century culture and ideology.

Author : Arvind Thomas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,32 MB
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 148750246X

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It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poet's words and the lawyer's world really so far apart? To what extent does the art of making poems share in the craft of making laws, and vice versa? Framed by such questions, Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages examines the mutually productive interaction between literary and legal "makyngs" in England's great Middle English poem by William Langland. Focusing on Piers Plowman's preoccupation with wrongdoing in the B and C versions, Arvind Thomas examines the versions' representations of trials, confessions, restitutions, penalties, and pardons. Thomas explores how the "literary" informs and transforms the "legal" until they finally cannot be separated. Thomas shows how the poem's narrative voice, metaphor, syntax and style not only reflect but also act upon properties of canon law, such as penitential procedures and authoritative maxims. Langland's mobilization of juridical concepts, Thomas insists, not only engenders a poetics informed by canonist thought but also expresses an alternative vision of canon law from that proposed by medieval jurists and today's medievalists.

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0812292375

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William Langland's Piers Plowman is one of the major poetic monuments of medieval England and of world literature. Probably composed between 1372 and 1389, the poem survives in three distinct versions. It is known to modern readers largely through the middle of the three, the so-called B-text. Now, George Economou's verse translation of the poet's third version makes available for the first time in modern English the final revision of a work that many have regarded as the greatest Christian poem in our language. Langland's remarkable powers of invention and his passionate involvement with the spiritual, social, and political crises of his time lay claim to our attention, and demand serious comparison with Dante's Divine Comedy. Economou's translation preserves the intensity of the poet's verse and the narrative energy of his alliterative long line, the immediacy of the original's story of the quest for salvation, and the individuality of its language and wordplay.

Author : Eric Weiskott
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release :
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 1535852798

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Gale Researcher Guide for: William Langland's Piers Plowman is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.