LEADER 04669nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910465619003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-151519-1 010 $a1-280-90601-4 035 $a(CKB)2560000000296078 035 $a(EBL)422590 035 $a(OCoLC)476258196 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000185993 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11182809 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000185993 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10218423 035 $a(PQKB)11140664 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000076505 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC422590 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL422590 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10177927 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL90601 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000296078 100 $a20051012d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJohn Skelton and poetic authority$b[electronic resource] $edefining the liberty to speak /$fJane Griffiths 210 $aOxford $cClarendon Press ;$aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (226 p.) 225 1 $aOxford English monographs 300 $aOriginally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Oxford) under the title: The liberty to speak: authority in the poetry of John Skelton. 311 $a0-19-927360-X 311 $a0-19-170630-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [192]-208) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Bibliotheca 327 $a3. '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 Emulation 327 $a5. 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' 327 $a6.3. 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; W 330 $aThis is the first book-length study of John Skelton (1460-1529) for almost twenty years, and the first to link his poetic theory with his practice as a writer and translator. Reassessing Skelton's place in the English literary canon, it suggests the need to reconsider the conventional distinction between 'Medieval' and 'Renaissance' poetics. - ;John Skelton and Poetic Authority is the first book-length study of Skelton for almost twenty years, and the first to trace the roots of his poetic theory to his practice as a writer and translator. It demonstrates that much of what has been found chall 410 0$aOxford English monographs. 606 $aPoetry$xAuthorship$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aAuthority in literature 606 $aLiberty in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPoetry$xAuthorship$xHistory 615 0$aAuthority in literature. 615 0$aLiberty in literature. 676 $a821/.2 700 $aGriffiths$b Jane$f1970-$0871480 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465619003321 996 $aJohn Skelton and poetic authority$91945502 997 $aUNINA