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Feral piers.

What do we mean when we talk about the text of Piers Plowman? What is the concept of a literary text when that construct exists in so many variant and feral forms, as is the case for the multiple modern editorial reconstructions and the more than fifty surviving manuscripts and early print editions...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gasse, Rosanne P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Cambridge Scholars Publis, 2016.
Edición:1st unabridged.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:What do we mean when we talk about the text of Piers Plowman? What is the concept of a literary text when that construct exists in so many variant and feral forms, as is the case for the multiple modern editorial reconstructions and the more than fifty surviving manuscripts and early print editions of Piers Plowman? How do the anonymous roles of author, scribe, and reader intersect to create the experience of the text? How can we judge a pre-modern text's reception history if we do not know exactly what it was that the early reader was responding to?This book takes a daring and innovative appr.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
ISBN:9781443889704
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