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020			_a9781107323490 (ebook)
020			_z9781107041844 (hardback)
020			_z9781107614703 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aPR428.B43 _bP35 2013
082	0	0	_a809/.933552 _223
100	1		_aPalmer, Patricia, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Severed Head and the Grafted Tongue : _bLiterature, Translation and Violence in Early Modern Ireland / _cPatricia Palmer.
246	3		_aThe Severed Head & the Grafted Tongue
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (196 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aSevered heads emblemise the vexed relationship between the aesthetic and the atrocious. During the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland, colonisers such as Edmund Spenser, Sir John Harington and Sir George Carew wrote or translated epic romances replete with beheadings even as they countenanced - or conducted - similar deeds on the battlefield. This study juxtaposes the archival record of actual violence with literary depictions of decapitation to explore how violence gets transcribed into art. Patricia Palmer brings the colonial world of Renaissance England face to face with Irish literary culture. She surveys a broad linguistic and geographical range of texts, from translations of Virgil's Aeneid to the Renaissance epics of Ariosto and Ercilla and makes Irish-language responses to conquest and colonisation available in readable translations. In doing so, she offers literary and political historians access not only to colonial brutality but also to its ethical reservations, while providing access to the all-too-rarely heard voices of the dispossessed.
650		0	_aBeheading in literature
650		0	_aViolence in literature
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107041844
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107323490
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37492 _d37492