{"product_id":"writing-the-future-9780708317143","title":"Writing the Future","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Critical Views Once and Future Scholarship Current Views: Donoghue and Ambivalence Writing the Future: the Argument Chapter One: Language as Personal History The Prologue of the Brut: Lazamon's Personal History Language as Cultural Product Duty to Heritage Betrayal Duty, History and Bakhtin Chapter Two: Individual Potential and Community Play, Creation and Intent Narrator's Intrusion: Voice, Orality and Textuality Dialogues The Welsh Connection Texts, Community and Prophecy Lazamon and Bakhtin: Back to the Future Chapter Three: History, Prophecy and Possibility Magic and Divination: The Supernatural Merlin as Lazamon's Prophet Prophecy, Possibility and Preaching Lazamon and Bakhtin: Textual and Narrative Potential Appendix: Overview of Lazamon's Brut","brand":"University of Wales Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884234682711,"sku":"9780708317143","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writing-the-future-9780708317143","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}