ISBN: 9780191649431

Irish saga literature represents the largest collection of vernacular narrative in existence from the early Middle Ages, using the tools of Christian literacy to retell myths and legends … More...

Irish saga literature represents the largest collection of vernacular narrative in existence from the early Middle Ages, using the tools of Christian literacy to retell myths and legends about the pagan past.This unique corpus remains marginal to standard histories of Western literature: its tales are widely read, but their literary artistry remains a puzzle to many even within Celtic studies.This book, the first to offer a systematic literary analysis of anysingle native Irish tale, aims to show how one particularly celebrated saga 'works' as a story: the Middle Irish tale Togail Bruidne Da Derga (The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel), which James Carney called 'the finest saga of the early period'.This epic tale tells how the legendary king Conaire wasraised by a shadowy Otherworld to the kingship of Tara and, after a fatal error of judgement, was hounded by spectres to an untimely death at Da Derga's Hostel at the hands of his own foster-brothers.By turns lyrical and laconic, and rich in native mythological imagery, the story is told with a dramatic intensity worthy of Greek tragedy, and the intricate symmetry of its narrative procedure recalls the visual patterning of illuminated manuscripts such as The Book of Kells.This book invitesthe reader to enjoy and understand this literary masterpiece, explaining its narrative artistry within its native, classical and biblical literary contexts.Against a historical backdrop of shifting ideologies of Christian kingship, it interprets the saga's possible significance for contemporaryaudiences as a questioning exploration of the challenges and paradoxes of kingship.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies: general > Literary studi, OUP Oxford<

ISBN: 9780191649431

This book explores the strange world of Irish sagas and is the first monograph to offer systematic literary analysis of any single native Irish saga.It presents an analysis of the finest … More...

This book explores the strange world of Irish sagas and is the first monograph to offer systematic literary analysis of any single native Irish saga.It presents an analysis of the finest of the sagas, The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel, and invites the reader not only to understand this and other Irish sagas, but also to enjoy them as literature.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies: general > Literary studi, OUP Oxford<

ISBN: 9780191649431

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*The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel* - Kingship and Narrative Artistry in a Mediaeval Irish Saga / pdf eBook für 149.99 € / Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen Medien > Bücher nein eBook als pdf eBooks > Belletristik > Erzählungen, Oxford University Press<

ISBN: 9780191649431

The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel - Kingship and Narrative Artistry in a Mediaeval Irish Saga: ab 149.99 € eBooks > Belletristik > Erzählungen Oxford University Press eBook als pdf, Ox… More...

The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel - Kingship and Narrative Artistry in a Mediaeval Irish Saga: ab 149.99 € eBooks > Belletristik > Erzählungen Oxford University Press eBook als pdf, Oxford University Press<

2013, ISBN: 9780191649431

Kingship and Narrative Artistry in a Mediaeval Irish Saga, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), [PU: OUP Oxford], OUP Oxford, 2013