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Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature (Hardcover)
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Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature (Hardcover)
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Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature explores the relationship of
divine creativity, poetry, and ethics in William Langland's
fourteenth-century dream vision. These concerns converge in the
poem's rich vocabulary of kynde, the familiar Middle English word
for nature, broadly construed. But in a remarkable coinage,
Langland also uses kynde to name nature's creator, who appears as a
character in Piers Plowman. The stakes of this representation could
not be greater: by depicting God as Kynde, that is, under the guise
of creation itself, Langland explores the capacity of nature and of
language to bear the plenitude of the divine. In doing so, he
advances a daring claim for the spiritual value of literary art,
including his own searching form of theological poetry. This claim
challenges recent critical attention to the poem's discourses of
disability and failure and reveals the poem's place in a long and
diverse tradition of medieval humanism that originates in the
twelfth century and, indeed, points forward to celebrations of
nature and natural capacity in later periods. By contextualizing
Langland's poetics of kynde within contemporary literary,
philosophical, legal, and theological discourses, Rebecca Davis
offers a new literary history for Piers Plowman that opens up many
of the poem's most perplexing interpretative problems.
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