Reading La3amon's Brut
Subtitle: approaches and explorations
By: edited by Rosamund Allen, Jane Roberts and Carole Weinberg
Series: DQR studies in literature -- 52; DQR studies in literature -- 52.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9789042036949; 9789401209526
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: Reading Layamon's Brut; Reading Lazamon's Brut
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 691-729) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducion / Rosamund Allen, Jane Roberts and Carole Weinberg; title: Did Lawman nod, or is it we that yawn? / Rosamund Allen; title: The Brut as Saxon literature: the new philologists read Lawman / Haruko Momma; title: "pe tiden of pisse londe": finding and losing Wales in La3amon's Brut / Simon Meecham-Jones; title: The Severn: barrier or highway? / Andrew Wehner; title: The political notion of kingship in La3amon's Brut / Eric Stanley; title: Queer masculiinty in Lawman's Brut / John Brennan; title: La3amon's leir: language, succession, and history / Kenneth J. Tiller; title: Losing the past: Cezar's moment of time in Lawman's Brut / Joseph D. Parry; title: Lawman, Bede, and the context of slavery / Daniel Donoghue; title: Drinking of blood, burning of women / Andrew Breeze; title: The coronation of Arthur and Guenevere in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, Wace's Roman de Brut, and Lawman's Brut / Charlotte A.T. Wulf; title: La3amon's gestures: body language in the Brut / Barry Windeatt; title: Conquest by word: the meeting of language in La3amon's Brut / Hannah McKendrick Bailey; title: A tale of two cities: London and Winchester in La3amon's Brut / Ian Kirby; title: When are Saxon's "Ænglisc"?: language and readerly identity in La3amon's Brut / Margaret Lamont; title: Mapping the national narrative: place-name etymology in La3amon's Brut and its sources / Joanna Bellis; title: The lexical field "warrior" in La3amon's Brut: a comparative analysis of the two versions / Christine Elsweiler; title: The language of law: lond and hond in La3amon's Brut / Deborah Marcum; title: Frið and Grið: La3amon and the legal language of Wulfstan / Scott Kleinman; title: La3amon's prosody: Califula and Otho, metres apart / Erik Kooper; title: Getting La3amon's Brut into sharper focus / Jane Roberts; title: Julius Ceasar and the language of history in La3amon's Brut / Carole Weinberg; title: La3amon's Ursula and the influence of Roman epic / Neil Cartlidge; title: Constructing tonwenne: a gesture and its history / Gail Ivy Berlin; title: Wace to La3amon via Waldef / Judith Weiss; title: Translating England in medieval Iceland: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannie and Breta sogur / Sarah Baccianti; title: La3amon's Welsh / Jennifer Miller; title: The wisdom of hindsight in La3amon and some contemporaries / M. Leigh Harrison; title: Reading the lanscapes of La3amon's Arthur: place, meaning and intertextuality / Gareth Griffith; title: La3amon's Brut and the vernacular text: widening the context / Elizabeth J. Bryan.