LEADER 05174nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910781623303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-21143-2 010 $a9786613211439 010 $a0-8122-0119-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201192 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051183 035 $a(EBL)3441528 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000539961 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11327627 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000539961 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10580203 035 $a(PQKB)10820315 035 $a(DE-B1597)448973 035 $a(OCoLC)979970062 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201192 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441528 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491985 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321143 035 $a(OCoLC)759158233 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441528 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051183 100 $a20110919d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Penn commentary on Piers Plowman$hVolume 5$iC Passu?s 20-22 ; B Passu?s 18-20$b[electronic resource] /$fStephen A. Barney 210 $aPhiladelphia, Pa. $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (328 p.) 225 0 $aThe Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman ;$vVolume 5 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-3921-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tNote to the Reader -- $tPreface -- $tC Passus 20; B Passus 18 -- $tC Passus 21; B Passus 19 -- $tC Passus 22; B Passus 20 -- $tList of Works Cited -- $tIndex of Historical and Modern Works, Authors, Persons, and Topics mentioned in the commentary -- $tIndex of Passages and Notes Mentioned in the Commentary 330 $aThe first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century is inaugurated with the publication of the first two of its five projected volumes.The detailed and wide-ranging Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plowman within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical interpretation of the poem, assessing past scholarship while offering original materials and insights throughout. The authors' line-by-line, section by section, and passus by passus commentary on all three versions of the poem and on the stages of its multiple revisions reveals new aspects of the poem's meaning while assessing and summarizing a complex and often divisive scholarly tradition. The volumes offer an up-to-date, original, and open-ended guide to a poem whose engagement in its social world is unrivaled in English literature, and whose literary, religious, and intellectual accomplishments are uniquely powerful.The Penn Commentary is designed to be equally useful to readers of the A, B, or C texts of the poem. It is geared to readers eager to have detailed experience of Piers Plowman and other medieval literature, possessing some basic knowledge of Middle English language and literature, and interested in pondering further the particularly difficult relationships to both that this poem possesses. Others, with interest in poetry of all periods, will find the extended and detailed commentary useful precisely because it does not seek to avoid the poem's challenges but seeks instead to provoke thought about its intricacy and poetic achievements.Andrew Galloway's Volume 1 treats the poem's first vision, from the Prologue through Passus 4, in all three versions, accepting the C text as the poet's final word but excavating downward through the earlier B and A texts. Stephen Barney's volume completes the framework for the commentary, dealing with the final three passūs of the poem, extant only in the B and C versions. Subsequent volumes will be the work of Ralph Hanna, Traugott Lawler, and Anne Middleton.Overall, The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman marks a new stage of concentrated yet wide-ranging attention to a text whose repeated revisions and literary and intellectual complexity make it both an elusive object of inquiry and a literary work whose richness has long deserved the capacious and minutely detailed treatment that only a full commentary can allow. Perhaps no poem in English appeals more than Piers Plowman to those readers who understand Yeats's "fascination with things difficult," yet The Penn Commentary will enable generations of readers to share in the pleasures and challenges of experiencing, engaging with, and trying to elucidate the difficulties of one of the towering achievements of English literature. 606 $aChristian poetry, English (Middle)$xHistory and criticism 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 0$aChristian poetry, English (Middle)$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a821/.1 700 $aBarney$b Stephen A$0165617 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781623303321 996 $aThe Penn commentary on Piers Plowman$93856626 997 $aUNINA