Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland by Hasler, Antony J - 2011: Allegories of Authority

Cambridge University Press. Used - Like New. 2011. 1st Edition. hardcover. Fine. Dust Jacket is Fine.

Cambridge University Press. Used - Very Good. 2011. hardcover. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy. Very Good. (Subject: Medieval & Renaissance).

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional sources, but also in the media of script and print. The book is the first for some time to treat English and Scottish material of its period together, and responds to European literary contexts, the dialogue between vernacular and Latin matter, and current critical theory. In so doing it claims that public and occasional writing evokes a counter-discourse in the secrecies and subversions of medieval love-fictions. The result is a poetry that queries and at times cancels the very authority to speak that it so proudly promotes.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo -… Read More

Cambridge University Press, 2011. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 2011 first edition hardback in fine condition. No marks, clean and bright, tight binding, flawless black cloth boards, almost like new. In its original, unclipped dust wrapper with minimal shelf wear. A lovely copy. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.

Cambridge University Press, 2011-03-10. Hardcover. New. 2.0051 22.9949 15.7868.

Hardback. New. This book explores a wide range of English and Scottish court poetry of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, including work by Skelton, Dunbar and others, and examines the ways in which the desire of court poets for legitimation tended to subvert the authority they claimed for their poetry.