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Interpretation in Piers Plowman

Interpretation in Piers Plowman (Hardback)

P&S History > Medieval World > Medieval Language & Literature

Imprint: Catholic University of America Press
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9780813210926
Published: 31st December 2002
Script Academic & Professional
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Interpretation in Piers Plowman treats the poem as the work of a fourteenth-century intellectual--that is, as the work of a litteratus, one obsessed with written texts, who interprets all human experience on the model of textual interpretation. But instead of providing a theory of interpretation, Langland shows what happens when incommensurable interpretive systems collide. The dreamer in the poem learns that the intellectual's lust for self-justification on the model of textual argument is futile and self-destructive, and yet that the intellectual must approach God, if at all, through texts. Literacy turns out for the intellectual to be itself instrumental like sin: an understanding of the wrongness of wanting to master texts in order to justify oneself provides the stimulus for a necessary refocusing of one's life.

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