The narrative grotesque in medieval Scottish poetry
By Caitlin Flynn
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- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-6081-2
- Pages: 272
- Price: £85.00
- Published Date: April 2022
- Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Description
The Narrative Grotesque examines late medieval narratology in two Older Scots poems: Gavin Douglas's The Palyce of Honour (c.1501) and William Dunbar's The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo (c.1507). The narrative grotesque is exemplified in these poems, which fracture narratological boundaries by fusing disparate poetic forms and creating hybrid subjectivities. Consequently, these poems interrogate conventional boundaries in poetic making. The narrative grotesque is applied as a framework to elucidate these chimeric texts and to understand newly late medieval engagement with poetics and narratology.
Contents
Introduction: the narrative grotesque
Part I: The Palyce of Honour, Gavin Douglas
1 'Overset with fantasyis': grotesquing the dream vision
2 Identity crisis: temporal dissonance and narrative voice
3 Heavenly harmonies: classical and Christian divinity in Palyce
Part II: The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo, William Dunbar
4 Making demandes: frame, form, and narratorial persona
5 Flyte of fancy: the first wife's Response
6 Lovesick or sick of love?: The second wife's Response
7 Bad romance: the widow as venerean preacher
Conclusion
Index
Author
Caitlin Flynn is Associate Lecturer in Medieval Literature at the University of St Andrews
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