Patricia Palmer

The Severed Head and the Grafted Tongue

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores actual and literary depictions of beheadings in sixteenth-century Ireland and addresses how violence is transcribed into art.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9781107614703
• ISBN-10: 1107614708
• Artikelnr.: 42557463

Autorenporträt

Patricia Palmer is a senior lecturer in English at King's College London. She is the author of Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland (2002) and has broadcast on language for Irish radio.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. 'A Horses Loade of Heades': conquest and atrocity in early modern Ireland
2. The romance of the severed head: Sir John Harington's translation of Orlando Furioso
3. Defaced: allegory, violence and romance recognition in The Faerie Queene
4. The head in a bag: Sir George Carew's translation of Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana
5. Elegy and afterlives.