Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-256) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 7. Bad romance: the widow as venerean preacher. 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 -- pt. 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.
Summary:
This work 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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