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Article: Written Work: Langland, Labor, and Authorship.(Review)
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
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Written Work: Langland, Labor, and. Authorship, ed. Steven Justice and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, i997), x + 347 PP.; 1 plate. ISBN 0-8122-3396-4. 42.75. [pounds sterling]
The focus of this collection of five essays on Piers Plowman is Will's `Apologia pro vita sua' in the C-text Passus v.1-104, of which an edition and modern translation by Derek Pearsall is given at the start (pp. 14-21). Three of the papers, those by Ralph Hanna, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, and Anne Middleton, deal closely with this section, its antecedents in the B version, and its congeners elsewhere in C; the remaining two, Derek Pearsall on ...