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| Date: | 2014 |
| Title: | The myth of Piers Plowman - constructing a medieval literary archive |
| Author: | Copeland, Rita Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn Wetherbee, Winthrop Palmer, Nigel Kruger, Steven Gaunt, Simon Frank, Roberta Warner, Lawrence Minnis, Alastair Barański, Zygmunt G. Baswell, Christopher C. Burrow, John Carruthers, Mary |
| Description: | Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by considering the possibility that Langland wrote a romance about a werewolf and bear-suited lovers, and he goes on to explore the methods of the poem's localization, and medieval readers' particular interest in its Latinity. Warner shows that the 'Protestant Piers' was a reaction against the poem's oral mode of transmission, reveals the extensive eighteenth-century textual scholarship on the poem by figures including the maligned Chaucer editor John Urry, and contextualizes its first modernization by a literary forger inspired by the 1790s Shakespeare controversies. This lively account of Piers Plowman challenges the way the poem has traditionally been read and understood. ; Copyright 2014 Lawrence Warner. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. This version is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives licence. This licence allows the content to be redistributed, as commercial or non-commercial products, as long as it is unchanged and the entire content, and attribution credited to the original. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3. 0/. |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/76815 |
| Other Identifier: | http://www.cambridge.org/ http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/literature/anglo-saxon-and-medieval-literature/myth-piers-plowman-constructing-medieval-literary-archive?format=HB http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/literature/anglo-saxon-and-medieval-literature/series/cambridge-studies-medieval-literature |
| AMAD ID: | 563263 |
| Appears in Collections: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe |
