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The Severed Head and the Grafted Tongue: Literature, Translation and Violence in Early Modern Ireland Palmer, Patricia (King's College London)
The Severed Head and the Grafted Tongue: Literature, Translation and Violence in Early Modern Ireland
Palmer, Patricia (King's College London)
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.
193 pages, 9 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 11, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9781107041844 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 193 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 236 × 19 mm · 408 g |
| Language | English |
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