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Langland's Fictions (Hardcover)
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Langland's Fictions (Hardcover)
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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.
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