Playing the Hero : : Reading the Táin Bó Cuailnge /

Playing the Hero : : Reading the Táin Bó Cuailnge / / Ann Dooley.

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 th...

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Dooley, Ann,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2005
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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