“[T]heyr foly dystynctly shal apere […] in Pyctures fayre and large”: Text-Image Relations in The Shyp of folys of the worlde (1509)
The Shyp of folys of the worlde (1509) by Alexander Barclay is an outstanding example of an early English literary publication in which both text and image are integral to the design, signalling continental antecedents but also the distinctiveness of the English version, and asking to be read, this...
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| Formatua: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines
2026
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| Gaia: | The Shyp of folys of the worlde (1509) by Alexander Barclay is an outstanding example of an early English literary publication in which both text and image are integral to the design, signalling continental antecedents but also the distinctiveness of the English version, and asking to be read, this article argues, reciprocally. Reconsidering The Shyp of Folys as positioned not only within a textual tradition but rather a tradition of text-image relations affords insights into Barclay’s practice as a translator and the expected competencies of his readers. Text-image relations in The Shyp of Folys and its continental antecedents are investigated through analysis of a single chapter in the German, Latin, and English versions, also with reference to the French verse paraphrase. As an example of a process of reciprocal reading, Barclay’s work invites thought about the multimodality of early English print more broadly, and the greater attention than has sometimes been acknowledged that writers and printer-publishers gave to pictures. |
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