Langland's fictions

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Langland's fictions

J.A. Burrow

Clarendon , Oxford University Press, 1993

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Bibliography: p. [123]-128

Includes index

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Langland's Piers Plowman is a profoundly Christian poem which nevertheless has enjoyed a wide general appeal. Readers - both religious and non-religious - have been drawn by the power of Langland's fictive imagination, the rich variety of imaginary worlds in his great dream-poem. Langland's Fictions examines the construction of the ten dreams which make up the B Text of Pears Plowman, and explores the relation of these dream-fictions to those realities with which the poet was chiefly preoccupied. This relationship is discussed under three main headings: 'fictions of the divided mind', in which the poet's mixed feelings about matters such as the value of learning find expression in imagined scenes and actions; 'fictions of history', in which the main events of salvation history are relived in the parallel worlds of dream; and 'fictions of the self', in which Langland's doubtful sense of his own moral standing as a man and a poet apparently finds expression. This chapter also addresses the controversial question of 'autobiographical elements' in the poem. John Burrow's lively and considered study is a major contribution to our understanding of one of medieval literature's most enduring works.

目次

  • A gathering of dreams
  • fictions of the divided mind
  • fictions of history
  • fictions of self?. Appendices: Langland and Deguileville - "Le Pelerinage de Jhesucrist"
  • Piers Plowman and Saint Peter - B XV 195-212.

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