The Lost History of "Piers Plowman" : : The Earliest Transmission of Langland's Work / / Lawrence Warner.
Despite the recent outpouring of scholarship on Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner contends, we know much less about the poem's production, transmission, and readership than one might think. When did William Langland write each of the three versions of the poem, and when did they enter wide circula...
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Warner, Lawrence, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Lost History of "Piers Plowman" : The Earliest Transmission of Langland's Work / Lawrence Warner. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (136 p.) : 3 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The Middle Ages Series Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Piers Plowman Before 1400: Evidence for the Earliest Circulation of A, B, and C -- Chapter 2. Scribal Conflation, Convergent Variation, and the Invention of Piers Plowman B -- Chapter 3. The Poison of Possession: B Passus 15 -- Chapter 4. The Ending, and End, of Piers Plowman B -- Conclusion. Lollars, Friars, and Fyndynges: C Passus 9 and the Creation of Piers Plowman -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Despite the recent outpouring of scholarship on Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner contends, we know much less about the poem's production, transmission, and readership than one might think. When did William Langland write each of the three versions of the poem, and when did they enter wide circulation? What role did scribes and other agents play in these processes? The Lost History of "Piers Plowman" engages with these questions to bring about a fundamental shift in our understanding of the genesis and development of the Middle English poem.According to received history, the poem exists in three distinct, chronological versions, the A, B, and C texts, with most scholars agreeing that Langland completed the B text-the version most familiar to modern readers-around 1377-78. Challenging much of the prevalent wisdom about the poem, Warner argues that the received B text is not an integral poem aligned with a single author but, rather, two groups of manuscripts, each of which, because of scribal activities, takes on varying amounts of what we now call C version matter. Through close textual analysis, he reveals that the B text is a conflation of an ur-B text with a collection of passages that belong to the C version of circa 1390, demonstrating that the circulation of the C text actually predates that of the B.The Lost History of "Piers Plowman" is a groundbreaking and provocative work that establishes an entirely new paradigm for the study of one of the central works of Middle English literature. It will be of interest to scholars and students of textual studies, editorial theory, and medieval history. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) Literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. bisacsh Cultural Studies. Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook-Package Literature 9783110413540 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812242751 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205800 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812205800 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812205800/original |
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