John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak
This is the first book-length study of John Skelton (?1460-1529) for almost twenty years, and the first to link his poetic theory with his practice as a writer and translator. Reassessing Skelton's place in the English literary canon, it suggests the need to reconsider the conventional distinction between "Medieval" and "Renaissance" poetics.
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John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak
This is the first book-length study of John Skelton (?1460-1529) for almost twenty years, and the first to link his poetic theory with his practice as a writer and translator. Reassessing Skelton's place in the English literary canon, it suggests the need to reconsider the conventional distinction between "Medieval" and "Renaissance" poetics.
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John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak

John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak

by Jane Griffiths
John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak

John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak

by Jane Griffiths

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This is the first book-length study of John Skelton (?1460-1529) for almost twenty years, and the first to link his poetic theory with his practice as a writer and translator. Reassessing Skelton's place in the English literary canon, it suggests the need to reconsider the conventional distinction between "Medieval" and "Renaissance" poetics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199273607
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 08/03/2006
Series: Oxford English Monographs
Pages: 226
Product dimensions: 8.60(w) x 5.70(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Titular identity: orator regius, poet laureate, and vates2. Amplifying memory: The Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus3. 'A fals abstracte cometh from a fals concrete': representation and misrepresentation in The Bowge of Court and Magnyfycence4. 'Shredis of sentence': imitation and interpretation in Speke Parrot5. Diverting authorities: the glosses to Speke Parrot, A Replycacion, and A Garlande of Laurell6. All in the mind: inspiration, improvisation, and the fantasy in Magnyfycence and A Replycacion7. Rewriting the record: Skelton's posthumous reputationConclusionSelect Bibliography
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