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Piers the Plowman: Literary Relations of the a and B Texts

by David C. Fowler

Pages: 264

Contributors: David C. Fowler

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Place of Publication: Seattle

Publication Year: 1961

Subjects: Langland, William,--1330?-1400?--Piers The Plowman

Table of Contents

Title Page

Preface

Contents

One: Vita De Do-Wel, Do-Bet, & Do-Best in the A-Text

Two: Principxes of Order In the B-Continuation

Three: Creation: the A-Text Revisited

Four: Fall and Redemption

Five: The Apostolic Age and Apocalypse

Six: B-Revision of the A-Text

Seven: About the Autho'r

Notes

Index

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