Severed head and the grafted tongue, the: literature, translation and violence in early modern ireland
Auteur :
Palmer, Patricia
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781107614703
Date de publication :
14 mai 2015
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,1 cm
Poids :
270 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Weaving together historical documentation of beheadings and literary depictions of such atrocities from sixteenth-century Ireland, this study explores how violence is transcribed into art, making Irish-language poetic responses to Elizabethan conquest and colonisation available in readable translations.