RT Book
T1 The severed head and the grafted tongue: literature, translation and violence in early modern Ireland
A1 Palmer, Patricia 1957-
LA English
PP New York, NY u.a.
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2014
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/750946989
AB Machine generated contents note: 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
AB 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. "Severed heads emblemise the vexed relationship between the aesthetic and the atrocious. During the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland, colonisers such as Edmund Spenser, Sir John Harington and Sir George Carew wrote or translated epic romances replete with beheadings even as they countenanced - or conducted - similar deeds on the battlefield. This study juxtaposes the archival record of actual violence with literary depictions of decapitation to explore how violence gets transcribed into art. Patricia Palmer brings the colonial world of Renaissance England face-to-face with Irish literary culture. She surveys a broad linguistic and geographical range of texts, from translations of Virgil's Aeneid to the Renaissance epics of Ariosto and Ercilla and makes Irish-language responses to conquest and colonization available in readable translations. In doing so, she offers literary and political historians access not only to colonial brutality but also to its ethical reservations, while providing access to the all-too-rarely heard voices of the dispossessed"--
NO Includes bibliographical references (page 145-177) and index
CN PR428.B43
SN 9781107041844
SN 9781107614703
K1 English literature : Early modern, 1500-1700 : History and criticism
K1 Beheading in literature
K1 Violence in literature
K1 Romances, English : History and criticism
K1 Romances : Translations into English
K1 Beheading : Ireland : History
K1 Political Violence : Ireland : History
K1 Ireland : History : 16th century
K1 British : Ireland : History : 16th century
K1 English literature / History and criticism / Early modern, 1500-1700 : Beheading in literature : Violence in literature : Romances, English / History and criticism : Romances / Translations into English : Beheading / History / Ireland : Political violence / History / Ireland : British / History / 16th century / Ireland : Beheading : Beheading in literature : British : English literature / Early modern : Political violence : Romances : Romances, English : Violence in literature : Ireland / History / 16th century / Ireland / Criticism, interpretation, etc / History / Translations