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The Myth of Piers Plowman: Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive
Lawrence Warner
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Description for The Myth of Piers Plowman: Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive
hardcover. A revisionary account of the powerful myths that grew up around the production and reception of the great medieval poem. Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature. Num Pages: 239 pages, 16 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Number of Pages
239
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107043633
SKU
V9781107043633
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About Lawrence Warner
Lawrence Warner is Senior Lecturer in Medieval English at King's College London and Director of the International Piers Plowman Society. His book, The Lost History of 'Piers Plowman': The Earliest Transmission of Langland's Work (2011), received Honorable Mention for the 2013 Richard J. Finneran Award of the Society for Textual Scholarship.
Reviews for The Myth of Piers Plowman: Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive
'A rollicking tale of how an entire field of study came to be created, or rather, fabricated … Warner's book is full of page-turning discoveries.' The Times Literary Supplement