The narrative grotesque in medieval Scottish poetry
Author | : Caitlin Flynn |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2022-04-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1526160803 |
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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.