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Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman




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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Pubblicazione: 05/2012





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Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman provides a detailed account of one of the central personified figures in William Langland's Piers Plowman. Previous critical accounts of Conscience either focus on discussions of the faculty conscience in scholastic discourse, or eschew personification allegory as a useful category in order to argue for the figure's development or education as a character during the poem. But Conscience only appears to develop as he is re-presented, in the course of Piers Plowman, within a series of different literary modes. And he changes not only during the composition of the various episodes in different modes that make up the single version, but also during the composition of the poem as a series of three different versions. The versions of Piers Plowman form, this book argues, a single continuous narrative or argument, in which revisions to Conscience's role in one version are predicated upon his cumulative 'experiences' in the earlier versions. Drawing on a variety of materials in both Middle English and Latin, Sarah Wood illustrates the wide range of contemporary discourses Langland employed as he composed Conscience in the three versions of the poem. By showing how Langland transformed Conscience as he composed the A, B and C texts, Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman offers a new approach to reading the serial versions of the poem. While the versions of Piers Plowman have customarily been presented and read in parallel-text formats, Wood shows that Langland's revisions are newly comprehensible if the three versions are read in sequence.




Sommario

1 - 'Who may scape þe sclaundre': Scandal, complaint and invective in B 3-4
2 - Penitential texts and vernacular Conscience in B 13-14
3 - 'Ecce rex': Conscience and homiletic discourse in B 19
4 - 'To a lord for a lettre leue to haue': Conscience and the friars in B 20
5 - New modes in the C text: Clerical 'suffraunce' and vernacular counsel
6 - Conscience in the versions of Piers Plowman




Autore

Sarah Wood completed her Masters and D.Phil. at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She currently teaches Old and Middle English literature at University College London.










Altre Informazioni

ISBN:

9780199653768

Condizione: Nuovo
Collana: Oxford English Monographs
Dimensioni: 222 x 18.1 x 149 mm Ø 386 gr
Formato: Copertina rigida
Pagine Arabe: 200


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