Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the C-text - Couverture souple

 
9780859897846: Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the C-text
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ISBN 10 : 0859897842 ISBN 13 : 9780859897846
Editeur : University of Exeter Press, 2008

Synopsis

William Langlands poem stands at the centre of the study of ideological conflict, social change and religious ideas in the later fourteenth century. It is a poem that vividly encapsulates the great issues and debates of the day and acts as a commentary on cataclysmic events such as the Peasants Revolt (1381), the condemnation of Wyclifs ideas (1382) and the rise of Lollardy. It is also one of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages, worth reading beside Dante and Chaucer.The poem has provoked a sophisticated and wide-ranging critical literature. It needs to be read in an edition by an expert conceived with the student-reader in mind. Of the A, B and C versions of the text of Piers Plowman, only a student-geared edition of the B-text exists and that edition is now becoming dated. The C-text, which supersedes B in terms of Langlands poetic career, is also a more complete and carefully structured poem. It needs to be available in an equally readerly edition; this is such an edition.For his new edition of the C-text of Piers Plowman, Derek Pearsall has completely revised the text, added side glosses for the benefit of student readers of the poem (though without sacrificing the glossary), and revised and updated the explanatory notes. The Introduction has also been expanded, revised and reshaped to take account of this. Since the new edition involves a significant reworking of the previous edition and justifies library copy replacement, a Hardcover library edition will be available for a limited period.

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À propos de l?auteur

Derek Pearsall is Professor Emeritus of Harvard University and a pre-eminent scholar of Langland and Chaucer; he has published widely on both authors.

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Éditeur
University of Exeter Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0859897842
ISBN 13 
9780859897846
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
438
Éditeur
Pearsall Derek
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0859897834 ISBN 13 :  9780859897839
Editeur : University of Exeter Press, 2008
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