04669nam 2200673 a 450 991046561900332120200520144314.00-19-151519-11-280-90601-4(CKB)2560000000296078(EBL)422590(OCoLC)476258196(SSID)ssj0000185993(PQKBManifestationID)11182809(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000185993(PQKBWorkID)10218423(PQKB)11140664(StDuBDS)EDZ0000076505(MiAaPQ)EBC422590(Au-PeEL)EBL422590(CaPaEBR)ebr10177927(CaONFJC)MIL90601(EXLCZ)99256000000029607820051012d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJohn Skelton and poetic authority[electronic resource] defining the liberty to speak /Jane GriffithsOxford Clarendon Press ;Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (226 p.)Oxford English monographsOriginally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Oxford) under the title: The liberty to speak: authority in the poetry of John Skelton.0-19-927360-X 0-19-170630-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-208) and index.Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Titular Identity: orator regius, poet laureate, and vates; 1.1. Aspirational Poetics: The Poet as orator regius in the Dolorus Dethe and Agaynst the Scottes; 1.2. The Poetics of Ambivalence: The Poet as laureate and vates in A Garlande of Laurell and A Replycacion; 2. Amplifying Memory: The Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus; 2.1. The Written Record and the Process of Writing: History in the Bibliotheca; 2.2. The Sources of Eloquence: Amplification in the Bibliotheca3. 'A false abstracte cometh from a fals concrete': Representation and Misrepresentation in The Bowge of Court and Magnyfycence3.1. Problems of Allegory in The Bowge of Court; 3.2. Words as Swords: Misdefinition and Misinterpretation in Magnyfycence; 3.3. The Poetics of Reason: Towards 'the liberty to speak'; 4. 'Shredis of sentence': Imitation and Interpretation in Speke Parrot; 4.1. The Grammarians' War: Imitation as Rule; 4.2. Truth in Parable: Imitation as Invention; 4.3. 'The liberty to speak': Imitation as Emulation5. Diverting Authorities: The Glosses to Speke Parrot, A Replycacion, and A Garlande of Laurell5.1. The Glossarial Background; 5.2. The Textual Evidence; 5.3. 'A Diabolical Tangle': Exegesis versus Interpretation in the Glosses to A Replycacion and Speke Parrot; 5.4. 'The Welchman's Hose': Entertainment versus Instruction in the Glosses to A Garlande of Laurell; 6. All in the Mind: Inspiration, Improvisation, and the Fantasy in Magnyfycence and A Replycacion; 6.1. The 'effecte energiall' and the Fantasy; 6.2. Fansy and Improvisation: 'the trouthe as I thynke'6.3. The Zodiac of the Poet's Wit: Skelton, Hawes, and Later Sixteenth-Century Poetics7. Rewriting the Record: Skelton's Posthumous Reputation; 7.1. The Skeltonic as Protest Poetry; 7.2. Skelton as Rogue, Fool, and Outlaw; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; WThis 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. - ;John Skelton and Poetic Authority is the first book-length study of Skelton for almost twenty years, and the first to trace the roots of his poetic theory to his practice as a writer and translator. It demonstrates that much of what has been found challOxford English monographs.PoetryAuthorshipHistory16th centuryAuthority in literatureLiberty in literatureElectronic books.PoetryAuthorshipHistoryAuthority in literature.Liberty in literature.821/.2Griffiths Jane1970-871480MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465619003321John Skelton and poetic authority1945502UNINA