Writing the Future: Lazamon's Prophetic History Tapa dura - 2002

University of Wales Press, 2002. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0708317146

Univ of Wales Pr, 2002. Hardcover. New. 192 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches.

Hardback. New. This text examines the relationship between literature and history in Lazamon's "Brut", a 12th-century verse history of Britain, while demonstrating Lazamon's use of prophecy as a strategy to unite political and religious ideologies.

University of Wales Press. Used - Very Good. 2002. Cloth, dj. 8vo. 182 pp. Mild shelf wear and chipping to dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. (Subject: Medieval, Literature English.)

Hardback. New. This text examines the relationship between literature and history in Lazamon's "Brut", a 12th-century verse history of Britain, while demonstrating Lazamon's use of prophecy as a strategy to unite political and religious ideologies.

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… Leer más

University of Wales Press, 2002-04-02. Hardcover. Good.