William Dunbar and the Querelle des Femmes: A Response to the Roman de la Rose
This paper examines two established works by the Scottish poet William Dunbar (c. 1460-1513) which appear in the 1568 Bannatyne manuscript: “The Golden Targe” and “Sen that I am Presoneir” (also known as “Beauty and the Prisoner”).1 Rather than simply rereading the familiar steps of the debate, I ar...
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| description | This paper examines two established works by the Scottish poet William Dunbar (c. 1460-1513) which appear in the 1568 Bannatyne manuscript: “The Golden Targe” and “Sen that I am Presoneir” (also known as “Beauty and the Prisoner”).1 Rather than simply rereading the familiar steps of the debate, I argue that Dunbar exploits his mastery of genre and style in order to subvert the usual terms of the querelle debate and reignite discourse in a Scottish context. In particular, Dunbar’s use of language is analysed, in terms of its appeal to the senses in his construction of gender. Ultimately I suggest that rather than two distinctly separate and stylistically opposed poems, one can read the “Targe” and “Presoneir” as a pair of cognate poems, a stylistic parallel to the disjointed dual authorship of the “Rose. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-918fbbd3f3354e319b893f39489136f72025-08-20T02:32:42ZengInstitut du Monde AnglophoneEtudes Epistémè1634-04502019-02-013410.4000/episteme.2907William Dunbar and the Querelle des Femmes: A Response to the Roman de la RoseLucy HinnieThis paper examines two established works by the Scottish poet William Dunbar (c. 1460-1513) which appear in the 1568 Bannatyne manuscript: “The Golden Targe” and “Sen that I am Presoneir” (also known as “Beauty and the Prisoner”).1 Rather than simply rereading the familiar steps of the debate, I argue that Dunbar exploits his mastery of genre and style in order to subvert the usual terms of the querelle debate and reignite discourse in a Scottish context. In particular, Dunbar’s use of language is analysed, in terms of its appeal to the senses in his construction of gender. Ultimately I suggest that rather than two distinctly separate and stylistically opposed poems, one can read the “Targe” and “Presoneir” as a pair of cognate poems, a stylistic parallel to the disjointed dual authorship of the “Rose.https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/2907William DunbarScotlandfeminismBannatyne Manuscriptquerelle des femmessixteenth-century |
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| title | William Dunbar and the Querelle des Femmes: A Response to the Roman de la Rose |
| title_full | William Dunbar and the Querelle des Femmes: A Response to the Roman de la Rose |
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| title_short | William Dunbar and the Querelle des Femmes: A Response to the Roman de la Rose |
| title_sort | william dunbar and the querelle des femmes a response to the roman de la rose |
| topic | William Dunbar Scotland feminism Bannatyne Manuscript querelle des femmes sixteenth-century |
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