Joan Blaeu, Scotia Regnum cum insulis adjacentibus, Atlas van der Hagen, Amsterdam, 1654 
Source: Joan Blaeu, Scotia Regnum cum insulis adjacentibus, Atlas van der Hagen , 1654 (National Library of the Netherlands)
Le Paris Early Modern Seminar a le plaisir de vous convier à sa première séance de l’année 2025, qui aura lieu le 16 janvier de 17h30 à 19h à la Maison de la Recherche de La Sorbonne Nouvelle, 4 rue des Irlandais, 75005, en salle du Conseil.
Nous aurons le plaisir d’entendre Theo van Heijnsbergen (University of Glasgow) sur le sujet suivant:
When ‘the centre cannot hold’: Scottish literary parody from the late medieval into the early modern in a European context
The Paris Early Modern Seminar paper on 16 January will focus on one of the continuities between medieval into early modern Scottish literature, namely on the fact that, because of its cultural-historical and geo-political condition, Scots writing tends to provide an incalcitrant gloss on the national literary traditions that it interacts with (English, French, Gaelic, Latin, Norse), calqued on these literatures in an often parodic manner. Parody becomes more than a literary figure, it articulates a perspective on life and on its cultural expression that includes sensibilities well beyond the humorous. In doing so, Scottish writers sought a dialogue with especially English and French texts and culture.
The paper will illustrate all this with many textual examples, particularly from the later fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. Where relevant, these will especially involve texts that have French sources or parallels, in order to set up a discussion on the day that invites comments from specialists in the relevant areas. This dialogue should make this an entertaining and informative session that will enrich the cultural and literary horizons of both speaker and audience.
Dr Theo van Heijnsbergen is a lecturer in the Department of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, teaching and researching mainly in the late medieval and 16th/17th-century period. His department is the only department of Scottish Literature in the world, i.e., of Anglophone literature written in or by people from Scotland. Being the only pre-1700 specialist in that department has made it necessary for him to teach across the usual period boundaries of medieval and early modern. This, crucially, allowed him to focus on literary and cultural-historical continuities across these two periods, as witnessed in his recent surveys in Oxford and Cambridge Companions and Handbooks for the period and in Literature, Letters and the Canonical (ed. van Heijnsbergen and Royan).
Séance organisée par l’UVSQ
Modératrice: Armel Dubois-Nayt
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Aurélie Griffin (19 décembre 2024). SEM 16/01/2025, Theo van Heijnsbergen (Glasgow), “When ‘the centre cannot hold’: Scottish literary parody from the late medieval into the early modern in a European context”, MDR Sorbonne Nouvelle, 17h30-19h . Paris Early Modern Seminar. Consulté le 11 mai 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/12ys5