LEADER 04079nam 2200577 i 4500001 ssj0001036438 003 WaSeSS 005 20191012081120.0 006 m d 007 cr n 008 130610s2013 enka sb 001 0 eng d 010 2013023230 020 9781107041844 (hardback) 020 9781107614703 (paperback) 035 (WaSeSS)ssj0001036438 040 DLC |beng |cDLC |dDLC |dWaSeSS 042 pcc 043 e-uk---e-ie--- 049 EREENEHH 050 00 PR428.B43 |bP35 2013 082 00 809/.933552 |223 084 LIT004120 |2bisacsh 100 1 Palmer, Patricia, |d1957- |=^A873987 245 14 The severed head and the grafted tongue |h[electronic resource] : |bliterature, translation and violence in early modern Ireland / |cPatricia Palmer, King's College London. 260 Cambridge : |bCambridge University Press, |c2013. 300 x,185 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm 504 Includes bibliographical references (page 145-177) and index. 505 8 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. 506 Available only to authorized users. 520 "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"-- |cProvided by publisher. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web 650 0 English literature |yEarly modern, 1500-1700 |xHistory and criticism. |=^A989565 650 0 Beheading in literature. |=^A593503 650 0 Violence in literature. |=^A88921 650 0 Romances, English |xHistory and criticism. |=^A93446 650 0 Romances |vTranslations into English. |=^A613425 650 0 Beheading |zIreland |xHistory. |=^A835291 650 0 Political violence |zIreland |xHistory. |=^A707568 650 0 British |zIreland |xHistory |y16th century. |=^A1065422 650 7 LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |2bisacsh 651 0 Ireland |xHistory |y16th century. |=^A18583 655 0 Electronic books. |=^A491897 856 40 |zFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/eastcarolina/detail.action?docID=1543582 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJOYNER188 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hHSL77 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJMUSIC60 596 1 3 4 998 5198941