Feral piers

Feral piers

by Gasse, Rosanne P.

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What do we mean when we talk about the text of Piers Plowman? What is the concept of a literary text when that construct exists in so many variant and feral forms, as is the case for the multiple modern editorial reconstructions and the more than fifty surviving manuscripts and early print editions of Piers Plowman? How do the anonymous roles of author, scribe, and reader intersect to create the experience of the text? How can we judge a pre-modern text's reception history if we do not know exa…

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  • Full title :Feral piers.

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What do we mean when we talk about the text of Piers Plowman? What is the concept of a literary text when that construct exists in so many variant and feral forms, as is the case for the multiple modern editorial reconstructions and the more than fifty surviving manuscripts and early print editions of Piers Plowman? How do the anonymous roles of author, scribe, and reader intersect to create the experience of the text? How can we judge a pre-modern text's reception history if we do not know exactly what it was that the early reader was responding to?This book takes a daring and innovative appr.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2016.
  • Edition:1st unabridged

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Cambridge Scholars Publis
  • Place of Publication:Place of publication not identified
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781443889704, 1443889709
  • oclc:on1264808575
  • LC Classification:PR2010
  • Dewey Decimal:821.1

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Langland, William Piers Plowman (Langland, William) POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Wel…

Writers

Gasse, Rosanne P.

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