Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland - Couverture rigide

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Terrell, Katherine H.

 
9780814214626: Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland
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ISBN 10 : 0814214622 ISBN 13 : 9780814214626
Editeur : Ohio State University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Scripting the Nation is the first book to set the poets of Scottish King James IV’s court—William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy, and Gavin Douglas—in an extended dialogue with Latin and vernacular traditions of historiography. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Latin chroniclers such as John of Fordun and Walter Bower argued for their nation’s status, using genealogically based myths of origin that linked Scotland to ancient centers of power. As vernacular histories grew more Anglophobic and quarrels rooted in the past continued to influence Anglo-Scottish diplomacy, Dunbar, Kennedy, and Douglas took up a national discourse that responded to English myths and an English poetic tradition exemplified by Geoffrey Chaucer. Terrell’s elegant study examines how these Scottish writers marked out a distinct realm of Scottish cultural and poetic achievement, appropriating and subverting English literary models in ways that reveal the interplay between literary and historical authority in the scripting of nationhood.

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À propos de l?auteur

Katherine H. Terrell is Professor of Literature at Hamilton College.

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Éditeur
Ohio State University Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814214622
ISBN 13 
9780814214626
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
244
Coordonnées du fabricant
Buchpark GmbH
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