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9780836956795 | Reprint edition (Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1978), cover price $15.95

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9780910956666 | Medieval Academy of Amer, June 1, 1978, cover price $25.00

Product Description: This book is an attempt to apply methods of literary evaluation to certain Middle English works. These works have long suffered neglect as literature because the scholarly world has been preoccupied with commentary upon their historical, social, philological and religious content...read more

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9780313219924 | Greenwood Pub Group, January 1, 1980, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: This book is an attempt to apply methods of literary evaluation to certain Middle English works.

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By John A. Alford (editor)

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9780520060067 | Univ of California Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $45.00

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9780520060074 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr on Demand, April 1, 1990), cover price $31.95

Product Description: The idea of the natural recurs throughout Piers Plowman. This book seeks to show that the idea holds a central place in Langland's understanding of the way in which man is saved. This understanding develops over the course of the poem under the kynde wit and kynde knowing, his presentation of Kynde as God, and his understanding of what is involved in being kynde...read more

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9780859912716 | Ds Brewer, June 1, 1988, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The idea of the natural recurs throughout Piers Plowman.

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Product Description: A Game of Heuene is a stylistic study of word play in the B-version of the Middle English narrative poem, Piers Plowman. In a close reading of Passus I, IX, XI, and XVIII, Davlin shows the frequency of word play and its effectiveness in multiplying meaning, developing themes, and suggesting relationships...read more

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9780859912723 | Ds Brewer, June 1, 1989, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: A Game of Heuene is a stylistic study of word play in the B-version of the Middle English narrative poem, Piers Plowman.

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Product Description: "Piers Plowman" by William Langland was written in the 14th century and is a very complex poem, which this book attempts to explain and elucidate. The approach reflects Godden's own feelings that one cannot hope to understand the poem without trying to comprehend the ways in which it developed and altered over many years and, still more, the ways in which the author's thinking developed...read more

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9780582059245 | Addison-Wesley, February 1, 1990, cover price $56.95 | About this edition: "Piers Plowman" by William Langland was written in the 14th century and is a very complex poem, which this book attempts to explain and elucidate.

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9780582016859 | Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, January 1, 1990, cover price $31.88

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Product Description: This is the first detailed study of four Middle English Romance poems--Guy of Warwick, Sir Ysumbras, Sir Gowther, and Robert of Cisyle--all of which are concerned with the sin, repentance, and atonement of their heroes. Hopkins argues that the kind of penance experienced by the heroes reflects archaic traditions and views at variance with the contemporary teaching and practice of the Church...read more

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9780198117629 | Clarendon Pr, November 1, 1990, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This is the first detailed study of four Middle English Romance poems--Guy of Warwick, Sir Ysumbras, Sir Gowther, and Robert of Cisyle--all of which are concerned with the sin, repentance, and atonement of their heroes.

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Product Description: This work looks at the treatment of the poem as a maze, a metaphor for the labyrinth in the life of art and belief.

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9780889463097 | Edwin Mellen Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $119.95 | About this edition: This work looks at the treatment of the poem as a maze, a metaphor for the labyrinth in the life of art and belief.

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Product Description: This study charts and analyzes the stylistic, ideological, and human signifiers of a general crisis of rhetoric and discourse: shifting genres and resolutions; parataxis; contradiction, recycling, and repetition. The style, structure and dialogic pattern of meanings of William Langland's Piers Plowman are the starting points of an inquiry into the contradictions of cultures and societies in transition...read more

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9780773495043 | Edwin Mellen Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $129.95 | About this edition: This study charts and analyzes the stylistic, ideological, and human signifiers of a general crisis of rhetoric and discourse: shifting genres and resolutions; parataxis; contradiction, recycling, and repetition.

This study argues that Langland did not write Piers Plowman in order to teach or preach. Instead, it is written as a journey during which Langland comes to understand and believe in Christ.

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9780802057990 | Univ of Toronto Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This study argues that Langland did not write Piers Plowman in order to teach or preach.

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9780802076557 | Univ of Toronto Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $23.00

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