@article{911649,
      recid = {911649},
      author = {Palmer, Patricia,},
      title = {The severed head and the grafted tongue : literature,  translation and violence in early modern Ireland /},
      pages = {1 online resource (198 pages) :},
      abstract = {"Severed 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 colonization 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"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/911649},
}