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The Text and Tradition of Layamon's Brut Francoise H M Le Saux

The Text and Tradition of Layamon's Brut By Francoise H M Le Saux

The Text and Tradition of Layamon's Brut by Francoise H M Le Saux


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Essays reflecting the present state of Layamon studies, identifying problems and outlining current directions in research.

The Text and Tradition of Layamon's Brut Summary

The Text and Tradition of Layamon's Brut by Francoise H M Le Saux

Essays reflecting the present state of Layamon studies, identifying problems and outlining current directions in research. This volume investigates the problems with which the contemporary reader of Layamon's Brut is faced: To what extent is the archaic feel of the Brut part of a deliberate aesthetic strategy of Layamon's? For what sortof audience could it have been written? How can one define its relation to older or more recent texts and traditions? What ideological stance (if any) is to be deduced from the work? The seventeen articles in this book tackle the different issues from a variety of fields: codicology and palaeography; Linguistics, stylists and syntax; the socio-political dimension of the work and its possible audience; the tradition upon which Layamon was drawing, and his contribution to later writers; literary theory and more general issues such as gender and spatial symbolism in the Brut. A number of essays present a synthesis of points of view, specifically intended to provide students with a yardstick against which to measure the more controversial articlesin the volume. Contributors: MARIE-FRANCOISE ALAMICHEL, ROSAMUND ALLEN, STEPHEN K. BREHE, BETH BRYAN, ARTHUR WAYNE GLOWKA, MARSHAL S. GRANT, DOUGLAS MOFFAT, YOKO IYEIRI, LESLEY JOHNSON, FRANCOICE LE SAUX, JAMES I. McNELIS III, JAMES NOBLE, HERBERT PILCH, JANE ROBERTS, ERIC G. STANLEY, CAROLE WEINBERG, KELLEY M. WICKHAM-CROWLEY, NEIL WRIGHT Dr FRANCOISE LE SAUXlectures in Medieval English language and literature at the University of Lausanne.

The Text and Tradition of Layamon's Brut Reviews

The essays span a wide and representative array of critical issues beginning with manuscript studies and proceeding through language, prosody, early reception, modern reception, and critical interpretation, with some source study along the way. * JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY *
A welcome contribution to studies of Layamon. * ANGLIA *

Table of Contents

A Preliminary Note on British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A.ix - Jane Roberts Lazamon's Archaic Use of the Verbal Prefix To- - Marshal Grant and Douglas Moffat Negation in the Brut - Yoko Iyeiri Lazamon's un-Anglo-Saxon Syntax - Alicia Black, Editorial Assistant The Poetics of Lazamon's Brut - A W Glowka Lazamon as Auctor - Steven K Brehe The Two Manuscripts of Lazamon's Brut: Some Readers in the Margins - Elizabeth J Bryan The Latin Marginal Glosses in the Caligula Manuscript of Lazamon's Brut - Carole Weinberg The Implied Audience of Lazamon's Brut - Rosamund S Allen Reading the Past in Lazamon's Brut - Lesley Johnson Angles and Saxons in Lazamon's Brut: A Reassessment - Neil Wright NO LONGER AT THIS ADDRS Lazamon's `Ambivalence' Reconsidered - James Noble Space in the Brut or Lazamon's Vision of the World - Marie-Francoise Alamichel Paradigms of Evil: Gender and Crime in Lazamon's Brut - Francoise H M Le Saux Lazamon's Narrative Innovations and Bakhtin's Theories - Kelley M Wickham-Crowley Two Breton Analogues of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - a Model Case for Lazamon's Relation to British Storytelling - Herbert Pilch Lazamon as Auctor - James I McNelis

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NPB9780859914123
9780859914123
0859914127
The Text and Tradition of Layamon's Brut by Francoise H M Le Saux
New
Hardback
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
1994-11-10
284
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