Signes and sothe : language in the Piers Plowman tradition
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書誌事項
Signes and sothe : language in the Piers Plowman tradition
（Piers Plowman studies, 10）
D.S. Brewer, 1994
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注記
Bibliography: p. 172-181
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
An exploration through language of the literary, historical and social tradition of poetry inspired by Piers Plowman.
Signes and Sothe examines the literary and historical tradition of poetry inspired by Piers Plowman. It explores the relationships of Richard the Redeless, The Crowned King, Pierce the Ploughman's Crede and Mum and the Sothsegger to each other, and to Piers. The book is based on the premise that language is a social phenomenon, drawing on a number of critical approaches from modern linguistics, theories of discourse, manuscript annotation and medieval conceptions of authorship and intention. It considers concepts of literary style and poetic diction in relation to the offical discourses of Church and State, and analyses the linguistic positions of the poems, revealing their historical and political significance. The social implications of compositional method are also examined in chapters on the use of wordplay and the employment of distinctive diction, legaland Wycliffite. As in Piers Plowman, the use and function of language is an important concern in these poems, and this study demonstrates how it is expressly related to their mission to criticize excesses and corruption insociety.
HELEN BARR is a Fellow and Tutor in English and Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford.
目次
- Locating tradition
- reading tradition
- Signes and Sothe
- "signes of the times" - contesting Sothe
- legal fictions
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