The Vanishing Landscape of Piers Plowman Journal Article

Overview

abstract

• Abstract; ; This essay explores teaching; Piers Plowman; in a resolutely secular context: the University of Colorado Boulder, where students tend to see the poem as Christian and, therefore, unfamiliar and/ or irrelevant. The author first discusses her efforts to teach the poem via historicism and literary analysis, the two modes fundamental to her own training, and the ways in which these modes ultimately proved unsatisfying. Then, the author advocates for teaching the poem in terms of moral interests, as an evaluation of human behavior, thoughts, and feelings. She includes a couple of exercises that help students see the poem as an attempt to make sense of the self and its relation to the social world.;

CU Boulder Authors

• Little, Katie

publication date

• January 1, 2024

Date in CU Experts

• January 16, 2026 1:42 AM

Full Author List

• Little K

author count

• 1

published in

• Yearbook of Langland Studies  Journal

Other Profiles

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

• 0890-2917

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

• 2031-0242

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• https://doi.org/10.1484/j.yls.5.143537

Additional Document Info

start page

• 199

end page

• 211

volume

• 38

issue

• 1