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Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture

Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman

Bennett, Alastair (Lecturer in Medieval Literature, Lecturer in Medieval Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London)

Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman

Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture

Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman

Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture: Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman

 

The book describes the process by which the narratives of Piers Plowman are composed and how they mediate and reconfigure their listeners' experiences.


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William Langland's Piers Plowman was written and read during a “golden age” of English preaching. The poem describes a world where sermons took many different forms and were delivered in many different contexts, from public events in the life of the realm to pastoral instruction in the parish. It dramatises preaching as part of its allegorical action, showing how sermons shaped their listeners' understanding of the world; it also includes polemical critique of corrupt, self-interested preaching, and offers radical prescriptions for its reform. This book argues that Langland's central insight into the way that sermons moved and engaged their audiences had to do with their characteristic use of narrative. Preachers in the poem address listeners who are absorbed in the concerns of their present moment, and encourage them to new forms of social and spiritual endeavour by locating that moment in a larger, interpreted plot: the story of an individual life, or an emergent community, or of salvation history as a whole. The book employs a critical vocabulary derived from Paul Ricoeur to describe the process by which these narratives are composed, and to show how they mediate and reconfigure their listeners' experiences.


ISBN
9780192886262
Pagina's
288
Verschenen
Serie
Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
NUR
320
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP Oxford

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