Chaucer (Past masters)

Chaucer (Past Masters)

Literature & Fiction

Kane, George

Poetry

Oxford University Press

Middle English Literature: A Critical Study of the Romances, the Religious Lyrics, Piers Plowman

History & Criticism

Praeger

Piers Plowman: The A Version - Will's Visions of Piers Plowman and Do-Well: An Edition in the Form of Trinity College Cambridge MS R.3.14 Corrected from Other Manuscripts, with Variant Readings (Revised Edition)

British & Irish

University of California Press

George Kane was Emeritus Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature in the University of London, where he taught for thirty years. He was twice awarded the Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Prize of the British Academy (in 1963 and 1999).

Piers Plowman: The B Version - Will's Visions of Piers Plowman, Do-Well, Do-Better and Do-Best: An Edition in the Form of Trinity College Cambridge MS B.15.17, Corrected and Restored from the Known Evidence, with Variant Readings (Revised Edition)

Arts & Photography

Donaldson, E. Talbot

Bloomsbury Academic

Kane, George, Chaucer And Langland: Historical And Textual Approaches

Chaucer and Langland: Historical and Textual Approaches

Chaucer and Langland: Historical Textual Approaches

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

This Glossary is designed as a companion to William Langland's dream vision poem, Piers Plowman, widely regarded as the greatest literary work in Middle English before Chaucer. It glosses and explains over 5000 English words, and foreign words used as if English, in the A, B and C texts of Piers Plowman printed in the critically-acclaimed Athlone editions. Where possible, it illustrates words with examples from all three versions. The first glossary to Piers Plowman was compiled in 1886 by Sir William Skeat but there has been no attempt, until now, to provide a new glossary that takes account of the considerable advances in Middle English scholarship over the last century. This new Glossary gives particular attention to the distinctive problems inherent in its subject, how the texts were preserved, written and received in their time. It takes account of the dialectical and morphological variations between the three texts; the grammar of Langland's style; the richly figurative texture of the rhetorical language used in the poem; and the remoteness of many elements in its content from modern culture and its values.

The Piers Plowman Glossary

Continuum

Professor Kane is widely regarded as the leading middle English textual and literary scholar of our time and this collection of his essays will be widely welcomed. They focus largely upon the texts of Chaucer and Langland and demonstrate in an exemplary way how critical issues can arise from meticulous textual study.

Chaucer and Langland: Historical and Textual Approaches (Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism)

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