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Playing the Hero : Reading the Táin Bó Cuailnge /

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
Autor principal: Dooley, Ann, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Irish
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Reading This Saga""; ""1 Before Writing: Heroic Inscribing""; ""2 Opening the TÃin Bó Cúailnge""; ""3 A Scribe and His TÃin: The H Interpolations in TÃin Bó Cúailnge""; ""4 Epic Writing and Mythic Reading""; ""5 Myth to Epic: The Coming of a God""; ""6 The Invention of Women in the TÃin""; ""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""