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Writing the future : Lay̳amon's prophetic history / Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley.
- Title
- Writing the future : Lay̳amon's prophetic history / Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley.
- Author
- Wickham-Crowley, Kelley M.
- Publication
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR2024.B783 W527 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 182 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Layamon, active 1200
- Layamon, 1200 fl
- Layamon
- Brut (Layamon)
- To 1500
- Arthurian romances > History and criticism
- Prophecy in literature
- Literature and history > Great Britain > History > To 1500
- Britons in literature
- Kings and rulers in literature
- Cycle d'Arthur > Histoire et critique
- Prophétie dans la littérature
- Bretons de Grande-Bretagne dans la littérature
- Rois et souverains dans la littérature
- 18.05 English literature
- Arthurian romances
- Literature and history
- Profetieën
- Vertelkunst
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-174) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Middle English.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The prologue of the Brut: Lay̳amon's personal history -- Language as cultural product -- Duty to heritage -- Betrayal -- Duty, history and Bakhtin -- Play, creation and intent -- Narrator's intrusions: voice, orality and textuality -- Dialogues -- The Welsh connection -- Texts, community and prophecy -- Lay̳amon and Bakhtin: back to the future -- Magic and divination: the supernatural and natural -- Merlin as Lay̳amon's prophet -- Prophecy, possibility and preaching -- Lay̳amon and Bakhtin: textual and narrative potential.
- ISBN
- 0708317146
- 9780708317143
- LCCN
- 2002491983
- OCLC
- 51438868
- SCSB-12743171
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library