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The narrative grotesque in medieval Scottish poetry

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The narrative grotesque introduces a new framework for reading medieval texts that rupture conventional poetic boundaries and create unsettling fusions of poetic forms and narratological subjectivi...
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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.
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Price: £25.00
Pages: 272
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Publication Date: 19 January 2027
ISBN: 9781807072889
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry and poets

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Caitlin Flynn is Associate Lecturer in Medieval Literature at the University of St Andrews

Introduction: the narrative grotesque
Part I: The Palyce of Honour, Gavin Douglas
1 ‘Overset with fantasyis’: grotesquing the dream vision
2 Identity crisis: temporal dissonance and narrative voice
3 Heavenly harmonies: classical and Christian divinity in Palyce
Part II: The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo, William Dunbar
4 Making demandes: frame, form, and narratorial persona
5 Flyte of fancy: the first wife’s Response
6 Lovesick or sick of love?: The second wife’s Response
7 Bad romance: the widow as venerean preacher
Conclusion
Index