About this religious work
The Penn commentary on Piers Plowman. Volume 4, C Passūs 15-19 ; B Passūs 13-17 by Andrew Galloway; Traugott Lawler; Ralph Hanna; Stephen A. Barney is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
The detailed and wide-ranging Penn Commentary on "Piers Plowman" places the allegorical dream-vision of the poem within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical interpretation of the work, assessing past scholarship while offering original materials and insights throughout. The authors' line-by-line, section by section, and passus by passus commentary on all three versions of the poem and on the stages of its multiple revisions reveals new aspects of the poem's meaning while assessing and summarizing a complex and often divisive scholarly tradition. The volumes offer an up-to-date, original, and open-ended guide to a poem whose engagement with its social world is unrivaled in English literature, and whose literary, religious, and intellectual accomplishments are uniquely powerful. The Penn Commentary is designed to be equally useful to readers of the A, B, or C texts of the poem. It is geared to readers eager to have detailed experience of Piers Plowman and other medieval literature, possessing some basic knowledge of Middle English language and literature, and interested in pondering fur
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Andrew Galloway; Traugott Lawler; Ralph Hanna; Stephen A. Barney
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812239218
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction