Court poetry in late medieval England and Scotland : allegories of authority / Antony J. Hasler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hasler, Antony, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 80.

Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 80

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Skelton, John, 1460?-1529--Criticism and interpretation.

Skelton, John.

Dunbar, William, 1460?-1520?--Criticism and interpretation.

Dunbar, William.

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Authority in literature.

Political poetry, English--History and criticism.

Political poetry, English.

Politics and literature--England--History--16th century.

Politics and literature.

Politics and literature--Scotland--History--16th century.

Courts and courtiers in literature.

Authors and patrons--England--History--16th century.

Authors and patrons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 253 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Court Poetry in Late Medieval England & Scotland

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional sources, but also in the media of script and print. The book is the first for some time to treat English and Scottish material of its period together, and responds to European literary contexts, the dialogue between vernacular and Latin matter, and current critical theory. In so doing it claims that public and occasional writing evokes a counter-discourse in the secrecies and subversions of medieval love-fictions. The result is a poetry that queries and at times cancels the very authority to speak that it so proudly promotes.

Contents:

Beginnings: André's Vita Henrici Septimi and Dunbar's aureate allegories

The Bowge of Courte and the birth of the paranoid subject

"My panefull purs so priclis me": the rhetoric of the self in Dunbar's petitionary poems

Translative senses: Alexander Barclay's eclogues and Gavin Douglas's Palice of Honour

Mémoires d'outre-tombe: love, rhetoric and the poems of Stephen Hawes

Mapping Skelton: "Esebon, Marybon, Wheston next Barnet."

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-21814-4

1-139-03615-7

1-283-05213-X

9786613052131

1-139-04161-4

1-139-04238-6

1-139-04501-6

1-139-03847-8

0-511-78015-X

1-139-04084-7

OCLC:

710974869