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Essays reflecting the present state of Layamon studies, identifying
problems and outlining current directions in research. This volume
investigates the problems with which the contemporary reader of
Layamon's Brut is faced: 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 fields: 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.
Contributors: MARIE-FRANCOISE ALAMICHEL, ROSAMUND ALLEN, STEPHEN K.
BREHE, BETH BRYAN, ARTHUR WAYNE GLOWKA, MARSHAL S. GRANT, DOUGLAS
MOFFAT, YOKO IYEIRI, LESLEY JOHNSON, FRANCOICE LE SAUX, JAMES I.
McNELIS III, JAMES NOBLE, HERBERT PILCH, JANE ROBERTS, ERIC G.
STANLEY, CAROLE WEINBERG, KELLEY M. WICKHAM-CROWLEY, NEIL WRIGHT Dr
FRANCOISE LE SAUXlectures in Medieval English language and
literature at the University of Lausanne.
This book, first published in 2000, discusses the attitudes towards
Anglo-Saxons expressed by English poets, playwrights and novelists
from the thirteenth century to the present day. The essays are
arranged chronologically, tracing literary responses to the
Anglo-Saxons in the medieval period, the Renaissance and also the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In earlier centuries the
Ango-Saxons were often idealized representatives of happier times.
Later, they became the epitome of a 'British' race, while an
individual Anglo-Saxon, King Alfred, was inflated into a national
hero. A final essay suggests the disappearance of any clear sense
of the cultural roots of the English in the twentieth century. The
contributors, who are specialists in their respective fields from
Britain and the United States, draw on works that have frequently
been ignored or overlooked. They address topical issues such as
nationalism, cultural identity, myth, gender and contextualization.
This book discusses the attitudes toward Anglo-Saxons expressed by English poets, playwrights and novelists from the thirteenth century to the present day. The essays are arranged chronologically, tracing literary responses to the Anglo-Saxons in the medieval period, the Renaissance, and also the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The contributors, who are specialists in their respective fields from Britain and the United States, draw on works that have frequently been ignored or overlooked. They address topical issues such as nationalism, cultural identity, myth, gender and contextualization.
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