This dissertation seeks to reconcile Piers Plowman’s continual use of popular lyric traditions with the concerns that the poem raises regarding the moral value and didactic efficacy of poetic “making. ” The lyric is crucial to both the structure and poetic methods of Piers Plowman, shaping the poem’s most complex literary effects while bringing to focus the poem’s interrogation of the utility of literature generally. The result is that Piers Plowman is at its most and least “literary ” when it is being lyrical; although its lyric passages evoke popular modes of song and entertainment, they are, simultaneously, often so oddly integrated that their value is called into question. Both in its form and the expository discourses of its allegorical characters, the poem unites its unusual concordance of medieval poetic genres and commonplaces under a guiding principle of the ethics of literary production and consumption, yet also generates a continual friction between its modus agendi, or “way of proceeding, ” and its literary

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Taking the mid-life crisis as its starting point, this paper discusses some of the psychological problems which affect the organizational role of the middle-aged executive. These problems relate to setbacks in career and the ways the executive and the organization try to deal with these failures

This study examines associations between multiple urban neighborhood characteristics (socioeconomic disadvantage, affluence, and racial/ethnic composition) and depressive symptoms among late middle aged persons and compares findings to those previously obtained for persons age 70 years and older

This study examines associations between multiple urban neighborhood characteristics (socioeconomic disadvantage, affluence, and racial/ethnic composition) and depressive symptoms among late middle aged persons and compares findings to those previously obtained for persons age 70 years and older

against the backdrop of a particular application. This shift in emphasis is, however, not new. A similar shift towards “interactive logic ” occurred in the high Middle Ages. We provide a number of different examples of “interactive logic ” in the Middle Ages, all species of the disputation game obligatio

archaeological periods the Chacolithic and Middle Age taking into account the geographical and socio economical situation. The study concerned four archaelogical sites in south west France and population samples an inlander for the Chalcolithic Age, an inlander, an costal and urban for the Middle Age