Norton Critical Editions: Piers Plowman

基本信息

Edited by:Elizabeth Robertson, Stephen H.A. Shepherd

Series:Norton Critical Editions

Format:Paperback / softback 672 pages

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Imprint:WW Norton & Co

Edition:Critical ed

ISBN:9780393975598

Published:7 Mar 2006

Classifications:Poetry by individual poets

Readership:General (US: Trade)

Weight:566g

Dimensions:234 x 143 x 18 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《农夫皮尔斯》是中世纪最重要的文学作品之一。

威廉·兰格兰的这部打破传统的杰作在文化和神学上都令人震惊，它既是历史遗迹，也是深刻的精神愿景，它不仅探讨了社会和宗教贵族，还探讨了基本上没有发言权的无产阶级的日常现实。E. Talbot Donaldson翻译的文本被选为这个诺顿评论版，因为它熟练地模仿了原诗独特的头韵诗。选择的权威中世纪英语文本也包括比较分析。“来源和背景”包括大量的当代宗教和历史文件，与诗歌有关，包括从杜埃圣经的选集，对瘟疫的描述，和法律法规。《批评》包括20篇由主流媒体作家撰写的解释性文章，其中包括E. Talbot Donaldson, George Kane, Jill Mann, Derek Pearsall, C. David Benson和Elizabeth D. Kirk。词汇表和选定的书目也包括在内。

Piers Plowman is one of the most significant works of medieval literature.

Astonishing in its cultural and theological scope, William Langland’s iconoclastic masterpiece is at once a historical relic and a deeply spiritual vision, probing not only the social and religious aristocracy but also the day-to-day realities of a largely voiceless proletariat class. E. Talbot Donaldson’s translation of the text has been selected for this Norton Critical Edition because of its skillful emulation of the original poem’s distinct alliterative verse. Selections of the authoritative Middle English text are also included for comparative analysis. "Sources and Backgrounds" includes a large collection of contemporary religious and historical documents pertaining to the poem, including selections from the Douai Bible, accounts of the plague, and legal statutes. "Criticism" includes twenty interpretive essays by leading medievalists, among them E. Talbot Donaldson, George Kane, Jill Mann, Derek Pearsall, C. David Benson, and Elizabeth D. Kirk. A Glossary and Selected Bibliography are also included.

作者简介

伊丽莎白·罗伯逊是科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的英语教授。

Elizabeth Robertson is Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of Early English Devotional Prose and The Female Audience and Chaucerian Consent. She is co-author of Chaucer's Religious Tales and Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.

Stephen H. A. Shepherd是Loyola Marymount大学的英语副教授。他的荣誉包括亨廷顿图书馆和美国书目学会的奖学金。他是中世纪伪特平编年史的编辑也是中世纪英语浪漫小说诺顿评论版的编辑也是《农夫皮尔斯》诺顿评论版的编辑。

Stephen H. A. Shepherd is Associate Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University. His honors include fellowships to the Huntington Library and the Bibliographical Society of America. He is the editor of the Middle-English Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle and of the Norton Critical Edition of Middle English Romances and coeditor of the Norton Critical Edition of Piers Plowman.