num_pages: 284
description: This volume investigates the problems with which the contemporary reader of Layamon's Brut is 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 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. MARIE-FRANÇOISE ALAMICHEL, ROSAMUND ALLEN, STEPHEN K. BREHE, BETH BRYAN, ARTHUR WAYNE GLOWKA, MARSHAL S. GRANT, DOUGLAS MOFFAT, YOKO IYEIRI, LESLEY JOHNSON, FRANÇOICE LE SAUX, JAMES I. McNELIS III, JAMES NOBLE, HERBERT PILCH, JANE ROBERTS, ERIC G. STANLEY, CAROLE WEINBERG, KELLEY M. WICKHAM-CROWLEY, NEIL WRIGHTDr FRANCOISE LE SAUXlectures in Medieval English language and literature at the University of Lausanne.Table of ContentsA Preliminary Note on British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A.ix - Jane RobertsLazamon's Archaic Use of the Verbal Prefix To- - Marshal Grant and Douglas MoffatNegation in the Brut - Yoko IyeiriLazamon's un-Anglo-Saxon Syntax - Alicia Black, Editorial AssistantThe Poetics of Lazamon's Brut - A W GlowkaLazamon as Auctor - Steven K BreheThe Two Manuscripts of Lazamon's Some Readers in the Margins - Elizabeth J BryanThe Latin Marginal Glosses in the Caligula Manuscript of Lazamon's Brut - Carole WeinbergThe Implied Audience of Lazamon's Brut - Rosamund S AllenReading the Past in Lazamon's Brut - Lesley JohnsonAngles and Saxons in Lazamon's A Reassessment - Neil Wright NO LONGER AT THIS ADDRSLazamon's `Ambivalence' Reconsidered - James NobleSpace in the Brut or Lazamon's Vision of the World - Marie-Francoise AlamichelParadigms of Gender and Crime in Lazamon's Brut - Francoise H M Le SauxLazamon's Narrative Innovations and Bakhtin's Theories - Kelley M Wickham-CrowleyTwo Breton Analogues of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - a Model Case for Lazamon's Relation to British Storytelling - Herbert PilchLazamon as Auctor - James I McNelis
language: English
title: The Text and Tradition of Layamon's Brut
titlecomplete: The Text and Tradition of Layamon's Brut (Arthurian Studies)
characters: Layamon
ratings_count: 4
publisher: D.S. Brewer