Playing the hero : reading the Irish saga Táin bó Cúailnge /

In Playing the Hero, Ann Dooley examines the surviving manuscript versions of the greatest of the early Irish sagas, the Táin Bó Cuailnge (Cattle-Raid of Cooley), and creates a picture of the cultural conditions and literary mind-sets under which medieval scribes recreated the text. Dooley argues...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dooley, Ann, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Irish
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2006.
Temas:
Táin bó Cúailnge.
Táin bó Cúailnge
Epic literature, Irish > History and criticism.
Cuchulain (Legendary character)
Mythology, Celtic, in literature.
Littérature épique irlandaise > Histoire et critique.
Cúchulaín (Personnage légendaire)
Mythologie celtique dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Epic literature, Irish
Literature
Mythology, Celtic, in literature
Ireland > In literature.
Irlande > Dans la littérature.
Ireland
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Reading This Saga""; ""1 Before Writing: Heroic Inscribing""; ""2 Opening the Táin Bó Cúailnge""; ""3 A Scribe and His Táin: The H Interpolations in Táin Bó Cúailnge""; ""4 Epic Writing and Mythic Reading""; ""5 Myth to Epic: The Coming of a God""; ""6 The Invention of Women in the Táin""; ""7 The Sense of an Ending""; ""Epilogue: Their Bodies, Ourselves""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""

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