02591nam a22003617a 4500 103415 KnowledgeUnlatched 20210303104838.0 m o d cr u|||||||||| 210129p20142017xxk o u00| u eng d (OCoLC)875289020 BiblioBoard The Myth of Piers Plowman Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive / Lawrence Werner. 9781107043633 https://library.biblioboard.com/ext/api/media/a1320a9c-3967-4fd7-8d28-371a803c046c/assets/thumbnail.jpg ScCtBLL ScCtBLL Werner, Lawrence author. Cambridge University Press, 1 online resource (240 p.) Access copy available to the general public. Unrestricted star Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by considering the possibility that Langland wrote a romance about a werewolf and bear-suited lovers, and he goes on to explore the methods of the poem's localization, and medieval readers' particular interest in its Latinity. Warner shows that the 'Protestant Piers' was a reaction against the poem's oral mode of transmission, reveals the extensive eighteenth-century textual scholarship on the poem by figures including the maligned Chaucer editor John Urry, and contextualizes its first modernization by a literary forger inspired by the 1790s Shakespeare controversies. This lively account of Piers Plowman challenges the way the poem has traditionally been read and understood.This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. Description based on print version record. Knowledge Unlatched Pilot Collection Literary Criticism bisacsh Literature History and criticism Electronic books. Is found in: Knowledge Unlatched https://openresearchlibrary.org/module/2774bc74-146a-484f-a7ba-ab1d6a09bbfb https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/a1320a9c-3967-4fd7-8d28-371a803c046c View this content on Open Research Library. 0 27792 27792 0 0 lcc 0 0 DL DL OA 2021-02-13 0 PR2015 .W37 2014 2021-02-13 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107338821 2021-02-13 EBOOK 0 0 lcc 0 0 DL DL OA 2021-03-03 0 2021-03-03 https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/a1320a9c-3967-4fd7-8d28-371a803c046c 2021-03-03 EBOOK 0 0 lcc 0 0 DL DL OA 2021-03-03 0 2021-03-03 https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/a1320a9c-3967-4fd7-8d28-371a803c046c 2021-03-03 EBOOK