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Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland de Katherine H. Terrell

Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland: Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture

Autor Katherine H. Terrell
en Limba Engleză Hardback – apr 2021

Evoluția studiilor medievale recente indică o reevaluare profundă a modului în care identitățile naționale au fost construite prin text, dincolo de simplele cronici politice. Descoperim aici, în lucrarea semnată de Katherine H. Terrell, o analiză riguroasă a modului în care poezia de curte din Scoția medievală târzie a servit drept instrument de legitimare istorică și culturală. Scripting the Nation nu se limitează la o critică literară estetică, ci plasează operele lui William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy și Gavin Douglas într-un dialog direct cu istoriografia latină a unor cronicari precum John of Fordun.

Notăm cu interes modul în care autoarea demonstrează că acești poeți nu au fost simpli imitatori ai tradiției engleze. Cititorii familiarizați cu The Trojan Legend in Medieval Scottish Literature de Emily Wingfield vor aprecia modul în care Katherine H. Terrell extinde discuția de la mitul troian la o strategie mai amplă de subvertire a autorității literare a lui Geoffrey Chaucer. În timp ce Emily Wingfield se concentrează pe o singură legendă, Scripting the Nation analizează cum poezia vernaculară a preluat ștafeta de la cronicile latine pentru a combate pretențiile de hegemonie ale Angliei.

Structura volumului reflectă o progresie logică de la mecanismele diplomației și genealogiei, în primele capitole, către studii de caz aplicate pe textele fundamentale ale epocii. Un punct central al lucrării îl reprezintă analiza traducerii Eneados de către Gavin Douglas, interpretată nu doar ca un act literar, ci ca o afirmație politică a suveranității limbii scoțiene. Prin această abordare, volumul publicat de Ohio State University Press devine o piesă esențială pentru înțelegerea modului în care autoritatea istorică a fost „scrisă” pentru a defini o națiune.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814214626
ISBN-10: 0814214622
Pagini: 234
Ilustrații: 1 b&w
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture

De ce să citești această carte

Această lucrare este esențială pentru cercetătorii interesați de formarea identităților naționale în Evul Mediu. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă nouă asupra modului în care poezia poate funcționa ca instrument diplomatic și politic. Este o recomandare certă pentru cei care doresc să înțeleagă relația complexă dintre literatura scoțiană și cea engleză, oferind argumente solide despre cum cultura poate subverti puterea politică prin redefinirea trecutului.

Despre autor

Katherine H. Terrell este o specialistă recunoscută în literatura medievală, cu un interes academic profund pentru intersecția dintre istoriografie, identitate națională și tradiții poetice. Prin activitatea sa în cadrul seriei Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture, ea contribuie la redefinirea canonului literar scoțian. Expertiza sa se concentrează pe modul în care autorii medievali din spațiul britanic au utilizat textele vernaculare pentru a negocia poziții de autoritate în raport cu tradiția latină și cu marile figuri literare ale epocii, precum Chaucer, oferind perspective critice noi asupra perioadei de tranziție către Renaștere.

Descriere scurtă

Scripting the Nation is the first book to set the poets of Scottish King James IV’s court—William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy, and Gavin Douglas—in an extended dialogue with Latin and vernacular traditions of historiography. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Latin chroniclers such as John of Fordun and Walter Bower argued for their nation’s status, using genealogically based myths of origin that linked Scotland to ancient centers of power. As vernacular histories grew more Anglophobic and quarrels rooted in the past continued to influence Anglo-Scottish diplomacy, Dunbar, Kennedy, and Douglas took up a national discourse that responded to English myths and an English poetic tradition exemplified by Geoffrey Chaucer. Terrell’s elegant study examines how these Scottish writers marked out a distinct realm of Scottish cultural and poetic achievement, appropriating and subverting English literary models in ways that reveal the interplay between literary and historical authority in the scripting of nationhood.

Recenzii

“Katherine H. Terrell’s important study breaks new ground in situating the work of poets associated with the court of James IV—William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy, and Gavin Douglas—within a tradition stemming from Latin and vernacular chronicle history.… [Her] rich and careful study offers valuable insight into the cultural landscape of late medieval Scotland, demonstrating how literature, history, and myth are imbricated in the construction of ideas of nation.” —Elizabeth Elliott, Speculum
“Terrell’s persuasive and deeply scholarly study weaves together literary and historiographical scholarship to offer substantial new insights into the poetry associated with the court of James IV, a period crucial for both the development of Older Scots literature and for Scotland’s transformed sense of itself as a nation.” —Rhiannon Purdie, editorial secretary of the Scottish Text Society
​“Scripting the Nation is impressively rigorous in its analysis and based on an intimate knowledge of the texts discussed and the contexts in which they were written. It has strong interdisciplinary credentials and contributes substantially to ongoing research in the fields of Scottish and English literature as well as engaging with issues of cultural and national identity.” —Roger A. Mason, editor of Scots and Britons: Scottish Political Thought and the Union of 1603
“This book is a very timely intervention in a medieval studies that is currently looking long and hard at its historical allegiances to nationalisms past and present.” —Antony J. Hasler, author of Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland: Allegories of Authority

Notă biografică

Katherine H. Terrell is Professor of Literature at Hamilton College.

Extras

The Scottish writers that I consider in this book both appropriate and subvert English literary models, creating a complex nationalist discourse that, even at its most fervently autonomous, is always engaged in a dialogic relationship with its sources. For these authors, whose intimate involvement with English texts helps to define their own nationalist projects, writing is always also a process of writing back. Far from being symptomatic of complicity in what R. R. Davies calls the “Anglicization of the British Isles,” the dialogic nature of these Scottish writings resists English cultural and political hegemony through the very act of redeploying English structures for ostentatiously Scottish ends. In turning literary indebtedness to their own purposes, the Scottish participants in this (frequently one-sided) dialogue define and delimit Scottish national identity in terms that differentiate it strikingly from its English precedents. Mingling the literary and historical past into narrative representations that take on the autonomous authority of myth, they reveal sources of nation and culture that they then map onto Scotland’s present and project into its future. Writing back to England becomes indistinguishable from the nationalist project of writing Scotland. Thus, chroniclers in the tradition of John of Fordun and Walter Bower, while patterning their histories on English chronicles, fashion compelling myths of Scottish origins that refute English assertions of hegemony over Scotland and powerfully influence Anglo-Scottish diplomacy. Similarly, the early sixteenth-century poets Gavin Douglas and William Dunbar devise narratives of Chaucerian inheritance that authorize their attempts to create a uniquely Scottish poetics, capable of surpassing Chaucer’s achievements. These seemingly diverse modes of writing intersect not only in their similar treatment of English models but also in their common concern with (re)scripting history as genealogical myth, a revisionary process that affirms the continuities between the present and an idyllic past imagined as a site of literary and political precedent. Positioning themselves as writers and as Scots in relation to this complex historical terrain, these writers negotiate a sense of identity rooted in history, while actively seeking to intervene in Scotland’s cultural and political future.

As the period during which Scottish culture first began to coalesce around the royal court, James IV’s reign provides a focal point for the poetic texts under consideration in this book. Accordingly, two of the poems most obviously and intimately concerned with Scottish nationalism—John Barbour’s Bruce and Blind Hary’s Wallace—fall outside the scope of this study. Their perspectives on nationalism and their links to the chronicle tradition have already been well explored, most notably by James Goldstein. In choosing to focus, instead, on the court poetry of Kennedy, Douglas, and Dunbar, I address a site of nationalist discourse that is at once more subtle and more complex than Barbour’s and Hary’s poems dealing directly with the Scottish Wars of Independence. While Barbour sought to celebrate and strengthen a nascent monarchy, and Hary to further bolster Scottish nationalism in response to James III’s pro-English policies, the poets of James IV’s reign were concerned with a different set of questions. As Sally Mapstone has argued, “It would be quite wrong to suggest that court life and courtly literature, even the court poet, had the same character before the 1490s as they were to have after them.” James IV’s mature rule opened up a brief space in which Scottish poets could ask not what it was to become a nation but what it was to inhabit one. I contend that this court poetry, written more than a century after Scotland’s reestablishment as an independent nation, seeks to consolidate Scottish national identity through its focus on the court as a site of Scottish self-definition and its persistent concern with marking out a distinct realm of Scottish cultural and poetic achievement.
 

Cuprins

Introduction
Chapter 1        On the Uses of the Past: Diplomacy, Genealogy, and Historiography
Chapter 2        Subversive Histories: Strategies of Identity in Scottish Historiography
Chapter 3        “Ane worthier genology”: Translatio Imperii and the Divine Imperative of History
Chapter 4        Legacies of Nationalist Historiography and the Founding of Scottish Poetry
Chapter 5        Literary Genealogy and National Identity in Dunbar and Kennedy
Chapter 6        From Courtly Love to Court Poetics: Dunbar’s Petitions and the Scottish Transformation of Tradition
Chapter 7        “Writtin in the Langage of Scottis Natioun”: The Political Poetry of Douglas’s Eneados
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

Descriere

Combines literary and historiographical scholarship to examine Scottish writers who created a literary-cultural nationalist project by appropriating and subverting English literary models.