 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
SIGNES AND SOTHE
LANGUAGE IN THE PIERS PLOWMAN TRADITION |
| By: |
Helen Barr |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
|
£70.00 |
|
We believe that this item is permanently unavailable, and so we cannot source
it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0859914194 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780859914192 |
| Publisher: |
BOYDELL & BREWER LTD |
| Pub. date: |
22 September, 1994 |
| Series: |
Piers Plowman Studies Volume 10 |
| Pages: |
202 |
| Description: |
Examines the literary and historical tradition of poetry inspired by "Piers Plowman". This book explores the relationships of "Richard the Redeless", "The Crowned King", "Pierce the Ploughman's Crede" and "Mum and the Sothsegger" to each other, and to "Piers". It is based on the premise that language is a social phenomenon. |
| Synopsis: |
"Signes and Sothe" examines the literary and historical tradition of poetry inspired by "Piers Plowman". It explores the relationships of "Richard the Redeless", "The Crowned King", "Pierce the Ploughman's Crede" and "Mum and the Sothsegger" to each other, and to "Piers". The book is based on the premise that language is a social phenomenon, drawing on a number of critical approaches from modern linguistics, theories of discourse, manuscript annotation and medieval conceptions of authorship and intention. It considers concepts of literary style and poetic diction in relation to the offical discourses of Church and State, and analyses the linguistic positions of the poems, revealing their historical and political significance.The social implications of compositional method are also examined in chapters on the use of wordplay and the employment of distinctive diction, legal and Wycliffite. As in "Piers Plowman", the use and function of language is an important concern in these poems, and this study demonstrates how it is expressly related to their mission to criticize excesses and corruption in society.Helen Barr is a Fellow and Tutor in English and Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. |
| Illustrations: |
bibliography, index |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
D.S. Brewer |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
No Cheese, Please!
A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.
|
My Brother Is a Superhero
Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
|
|
|
|
|