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Writing the Future Lazamon's Prophetic History
by Wickham-Crowley, Kelley M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0708317146
- ISBN 13
- 9780708317143
- Seller
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Carmarthen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cardiff: University of Wales Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 0708317146 . Dark Blue boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. The corners are sl. 'bumped'. In the original publisher's decorated dustjacket." Dustjacket is Not clipped. (viii + (2) + 182 pp. Lazamon's Brut - a twelfth-century verse history of Britain from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the seventh-century Cadwalader - is the first major work in English after the Norman Conquest and also marks the first appearance of the Arthurian legends in English. Previous Brut scholarship has tended to focus on the philological and linguistic aspects of the text, despite its historical importance and interest. 'Writing the Future' demonstrates Lazamon's use of prophecy as a narrative strategy to unite and respond to political and religious ideologies, and uses the work of Mikhail Bakhtin to rethink the relationship between literature and history in the Brut. Kelley Wickham-Crowley also considers the role of oral cultures in creating literary ones, the influence of the Welsh on the evolution of British political identity, and how disparate communities become one in Lazamon's vision for Britain's future. This first full-length study of the Brut as a literary whole shows how Lazamon's vision breaks new ground in the development of English narrative forms." No Inscriptions or Marks. Overall an Excellent Very Clean, Tight and Bright copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 108539
- Title
- Writing the Future Lazamon's Prophetic History
- Author
- Wickham-Crowley, Kelley M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0708317146
- ISBN 13
- 9780708317143
- Publisher
- University of Wales Press
- Place of Publication
- Cardiff
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- 0708317146, Brut - Verse History, Brutus, Cadwalader, Lazamon's Prophecy, British Political Identity Medieval, Arthurian Studies, Middle English Literature, Celtic Literature, Mikhail Bakhtin
- Bookseller catalogs
- Wales/Welsh; New Listings; Eng Lit, Lit Crit & Shakespeare;
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Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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About Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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