Subversion and Scurrility: Popular Discourse in Europe from 1500 to the Present

ISBN-13: 9781840146431 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 224 str.

Tim Kirk; Dermot Cavanagh

Opis

A collection of 12 essays which examine a range of illicit or subversive discourses in European societies from the 16th century to the present. The contributors look at a variety of modes of popular expression, including anonymous speech, slander and defamation, and political literature.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; subversion and scurrility in the politics of popular discourses, Dermot Cavanagh and Tim Kirk; Sins of the mouth: signs of subversion in medieval English cycle plays, Lynn Forest-Hill; Skelton and scurrility, Dermot Cavanagh; Rumours and risings: plebeian insurrection and the circulation of subversive discourse around 1597, Nick Cox; The verse libel: popular satire in early modern England, Andrew McRae; To ’scourge the arse / Jove’s marrow so had wasted’: scurrility and the subversion of sodomy, James Knowles; Anticlerical slander in the English Civil War: John White’s First Century of Scandalous and Malignant Priests, James Rigney; His praeludiary weapons: mocking Colonel Hewson before and after the Restoration, Neil Durkin; Innuendo and inheritance: strategies of scurrility in medieval and Renaissance Venice, Alexander Cowan; The last Austrian-Turkish war (1788-91) and public opinion in Vienna, Gerhard Ammerer; Surrealist blasphemy, Malcolm Gee; The policing of popular opinion in Nazi Germany, Tim Kirk; Subversion and squirrility in Irvine Welsh’s shorter fiction, Willy Maley; Index.

O autorze

Tim Kirk, Dermot Cavanagh