The Routledge handbook of applied linguistics

James Simpson

Routledge

The Norton Anthology of English Literature The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century. Volume C

STEPHEN GREENBLATT

James Noggle

Tiffany Stern

Katharine Eisaman Maus

Julie Crawford

Meyer Howard Abrams

Courtney Weiss Smith

Marian Johnson

Rachel Ablow

Eric Eisner

Deidre Lynch

Julie Orlemanski

Jahan Ramazani

Catherine Robson

Aarthi Vadde

W.W.Norton

The Norton Anthology of English Literature The Romantic period. Volume D

Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text (Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library)

The main aim of this book is to convince the reader of Piers Plowman's centrality in any account of the literary and cultural history of the later Middle Ages. It tries to demonstrate how the poem, despite being deeply anchored in a conservative literary, ecclesiastical and social culture, in fact questions that culture in moving towards positions of doubt and dissent, and in reimagining social and religious institutions. The author argues that Langland consistently develops one theme throughout the poem, that of the relations between justice and mercy. In following this theme, certain psychological, institutional, and literary changes become necessary: broadly speaking, the poem moves away from rational to an affective approach to problems; from a hierarchical to a more horizontal sense of ecclesiastical and social institutions; and from authoritarian, "closed" literary forms to more exploratory and open ended procedures. Simpson takes into account Langland's theology, his idea of the Church as an institution and in a broad sense, his politics. He also tries to show how ecclesiastical and political attachments are written into the formal choices Langland makes. Throughout the poem he considers such questions as what genre is being practised here?, what claims to authority does such a genre make?, what aspect of the self does it appeal to?, what social or ecclesiastical institution is it produced by and does it support? and finally, in what ways are authoritative genres found by Langland to be inadequate. The author aims to address the argument to readers who might have no previous experience of medieval culture; a secondary function of the book is therefore to provide brief expositions of any relevant backgrounds which need to be understood before an understanding of Langland's enterprise is possible.

Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text (Longman medieval and Renaissance library)

Literature & Fiction

Longman

Christianity and agnosticism: lectures delivered by the Rev. James Simpson, at St. Peter's Cathedral, Charlottetown, P.E.I.

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<p>"The Untenanted Room, with its elusive and haunting power, is unlike anything else I know of since Eliot and Hughes. It holds together a mythic personal narrative with the desolate gravity of our present general condition, in vigorous contemporary language which draws strength from its ancient roots and its kinship with the natural world, which we despoil even as it sustains us."-- Lindsay Clarke "It is an impressive work, deeply serious, ambitious, and powerful. It addresses personal issues; indeed, the 'place' where we 'that place / not properly inhabited, / swept clean, adrift, cut off, / hung on the grid of numbers'. Its language has a strong Anglo-Saxon feel, which corresponds to a feeling for earth, landscape, and the relation between language and the organic and animal creation."-- Jeremy Hooker</p>

The Untenanted Room: Poems by James Simpson, Woodcuts by Carolyn Trant

Agenda & Editions Charitable Trust

Uncommon Sense: ... And Comic Nonsense

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Steve Savage Publishers Limited

Family Farmers, Land Reforms and Political Action An Alternative Economic History of Interwar Europe

Springer Nature Switzerland

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