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'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire
Language: en
Pages: 38
Authors: Fellow of King's College Cambridge and Newton Trust Lecturer in English Nicolette Zeeman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-04-20 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This ambitious study links William Langland's great poem Piers Plowman to wider medieval enquiries into the nature of intellectual and spiritual desire. Zeeman'
Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Rebecca Davis
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-15 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature explores the relationship of divine creativity, poetry, and ethics in William Langland's fourteenth-century dream vision.
The Arts of Disruption
Language: en
Pages: 449
Authors: Nicolette Zeeman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-22 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively
The Philosophy of Piers Plowman
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: David Strong
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-26 - Publisher: Springer

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This book examines William Langland’s late medieval poem, The Vision of Piers Plowman, in light of contemporary intellectual thought. David Strong argues that
Consolation in Medieval Narrative
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: C. Schrock
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-13 - Publisher: Springer

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Medieval writers such as Chaucer, Abelard, and Langland often overlaid personal story and sacred history to produce a distinct narrative form. The first of its