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020			_a9781139050739 (ebook)
020			_z9780521868204 (hardback)
020			_z9780521687836 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aPR2015 _b.S74 2013
082	0	0	_a821/.1 _223
100	1		_aSteiner, Emily, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aReading Piers Plowman / _cEmily Steiner.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (278 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aReading Writers and their Work
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aReading 'Piers Plowman' is an indispensable scholarly guide to a magnificent - and notoriously difficult - medieval poem. With 'Piers Plowman', the fourteenth-century poet William Langland proved that English verse could be at once spiritually electrifying and intellectually rigorous, capable of imagining society in its totality while at the same time exploring heady ideas about language, theology and culture. In her study of Piers Plowman, Emily Steiner explores how Langland's ambitious poetics emerged in dialogue with contemporary ideas; for example, about political counsel and gender, the ethics of poverty, Christian and pagan learning, lordship and servitude, and the long history of Christianity. Lucid and comprehensive, Steiner's study teaches us to stay alert to the poem's stunning effects while still making sense of its literary and historical contexts.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521868204
830		0	_aReading Writers and their Work.
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139050739
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37706 _d37706