Vision and Quest: Piers Plowman and The Pilgrim's Progress Compared
Author : Shirley Drusilla Jepperson
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Page : 346 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Shirley Drusilla Jepperson
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Page : 346 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Barbara A. Johnson
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809316533
Centering her discussion on two historical "ways of reading"—which she calls the Protestant and the lettered—Barbara A. Johnson traces the development of a Protestant readership as it is reflected in the reception of Langland’s Piers Plowman and Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. Informed by reader-response and reception theory and literacy and cultural studies, Johnson’s ambitious examination of these two ostensibly literary texts charts the cultural roles they played in the centuries following their composition, roles far more important than their modern critical reputations can explain. Johnson argues that much more evidence exists about how earlier readers read than has hitherto been acknowledged. The reception of Piers Plowman, for example, can be inferred from references to the work, the apparatus its Renaissance printer inserted in his editions, the marginal comments readers inscribed both in printed editions and in manuscripts, and the apocryphal "plowman" texts that constitute interpretations of Langland’s poem. She demonstrates by example that what is culturally transmitted has not been just the work itself; it includes vestiges of past readers’ encounters with the text that are traceable both in the way a text is presented as well as in the way that presentation is received. Conditioned more by religious, historical, and economic forces than by literary concerns, Langland’s poem became a part of the reformist tradition that culminated in Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. By understanding this tradition, Bunyan’s place in it, and the way the reception of The Pilgrim’s Progress illustrates the beginning of a new, more realistic fictional tradition, Johnson concludes, we can begin to delineate a more accurate history of the ways literature and society intersect, a history of readers reading.
Author : William Langland
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 1996-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780812215618
"A gifted poet has given us an astute, adroit, vigorous, inviting, eminently readable translation. . . . The challenging gamut of Langland's language . . . has here been rendered with blessed energy and precision. Economou has indeed Done-Best."—Allen Mandelbaum
Author : Steven Mailloux
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501728431
In his earlier Rhetorical Power, Steven Mailloux presented an innovative and challenging strategy for combining critical theory and cultural studies. That book has stimulated wide-ranging discussion and debate among diverse audiences—students and specialists in American studies, speech communications, rhetoric/composition, law, education, biblical studies, and especially literary theory and cultural criticism. Reception Histories marks a further development of Mailloux's influential critical project, as he demonstrates how rhetorical hermeneutics uses rhetoric to practice theory by doing history. Reception Histories works out in detail what rhetorical hermeneutics means in terms of poststructuralist theory (Part One), nineteenth-century U.S. cultural studies (Part Two), and the contemporary history of curricular reform within the so-called Culture Wars (Part Three). Mailloux situates, defends, and elaborates the theory he first proposed in Rhetorical Power, and he exemplifies it with a new series of provocative reception histories. He also both critiques and reconceptualizes the version of reader response criticism he developed in his first book, Interpretive Conventions. Throughout Reception Histories, Mailloux demonstrates his distinctive blend of neopragmatism and cultural rhetoric study. By tracing the rhetorical paths of thought, this book offers a new way to read the current volatile debates over higher education and contributes its own original proposals for shaping the future of the humanities.
Author : William Langland
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Poetry
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Page : 474 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Dissertations, Academic
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Author : Dee Dyas
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780859916233
The meaning of pilgrimage and its development over 800 years, reflected in contemporary writings.
Author : Rosemary Alice Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,98 MB
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 135015301X
Winner of the Booker Prize for The Famished Road, Ben Okri is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary writers writing today. Featuring a substantial new interview with Ben Okri himself, a full bibliography of his creative work and covering his complete works, this is the first in-depth study of Okri's themes and artistic vision. Rosemary Gray explores Okri's career-long engagement with myth, Nigerian politics and culture, and with the environmental crisis in the age of the Anthropocene.
Author : S.S. Hussey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0429536186
Originally published in 1969 Piers Plowman is a collection of 12 original essays by leading academics on Piers Plowman. As a combined volume, this collection forms a substantial introduction and a comprehensive account of the poem, its background and textual problems. The book’s essays reflect the diversity, and vigour of criticism in the field of medieval literature and opens new perspectives in the study of one of its finest poems.
Author : British Council
Publisher : New York : Scribner
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Contains essays that provide information about authors who have made significant contributions to English literature, each containing a brief biography, a survey of principal writings, an assessment of the subject's work as a whole, and a bibliography.