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The Feral Piers A Readers Experience Of The British Library Cotton Caligula A Xi Manuscript Of Piers Plowman 1st Edition Rosanne P Gasse

Name: The Feral Piers A Readers Experience Of The British Library Cotton Caligula A Xi Manuscript Of Piers Plowman 1st Edition Rosanne P Gasse
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The Feral Piers A Readers Experience Of The British Library Cotton Caligula A Xi Manuscript Of Piers Plowman 1st Edition Rosanne P Gasse instant download after payment.

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

File Extension: PDF

File size: 2.91 MB

Pages: 270

Author: Rosanne P. Gasse

ISBN: 9781443887014, 1443887013

Language: English

Year: 2016

Edition: 1

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The Feral Piers A Readers Experience Of The British Library Cotton Caligula A Xi Manuscript Of Piers Plowman 1st Edition Rosanne P Gasse by Rosanne P. Gasse 9781443887014, 1443887013 instant download after payment.

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 texts 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 approach to answering such questions as these. It is a micro-study of one particular historic version of Piers Plowman, its scribe, and its fifteenth and sixteenth-century readers: British Library Cotton Caligula A XI, a manuscript which combines the C, A, and B texts of the poem, and which was likely copied out in the first quarter of the fifteenth century. It reads the Cotton Piers not as an ossified relic whose value lies in what can be gleaned from it about modes of scribal production and Cots textual relationship to other Piers manuscripts, but as a living text meant to be experienced and enjoyed as a work of literature in its own right. In gaining a better comprehension at the micro-level of this particular historic version, a better understanding of the whole concept of Piers Plowman itself emerges.