| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (x, 386 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed Apr. 2, 2013). |
| Summary |
This book explores the strange world of Irish sagas. It offers a systematic literary analysis of any single native Irish saga and presents an analysis of the finest of the sagas, 'The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel'. The reader is invited to not only understand this and other Irish sagas, but also to enjoy them as literature. |
| Contents |
Note on Quotations; List of Illustrations; Introduction; The story and its critics; Overview of the argument; 1. The Text and its Authors; or, How to Write a Saga; Textual variation, the archetype, and our text; The sources and recensions of the Togail; Compilation, creativity, and clumsiness; or, how to read a saga; 2. A Child of the Otherworld; The woman of sovereignty; Otherworldly parentage; Kin-slaying and king-making; Gessi: a contract with the Otherworld; 3. The Plunderers' Dilemma; The demands of díberg; Facing the dilemma; Interpreting the dilemma |
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4. The Road to Da Derga's HostelChronological tightening; Journey's end; Interlace and viewpoint; 5. The House of Death; A crescendo of omens; Descriptive formulae and the movement towards myth; 6. The Perfect Spy; The 'watchman device'; The tableaux of the Togail; Pattern, variation, and dramatic dialogue; Prophecies, storytelling, and Otherworldly knowledge; 7. Sovereignty Shattered; An ideal king?; The centre cannot hold; The last battle and the deathless destruction of Ireland; Epilogue; 8. The Latin Dimension: Classical and Biblical Influence |
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Classical translations and the origins of vernacular 'epic'Ekphrasis in the 'watchman device': classical-traditional interplay; The question of biblical influence; 9. Conaire, Saul, and Sacred Kingship; The Togail and the Old Testament; Explaining the parallels; Christian kingship and the Old Testament: Ireland and the Franks; Christian kingship and the heathen past: the vernacular tecosca; Conclusion; 10. The Message of the Togail: Tract or Tragedy?; Political scripture and the saga as exemplum; Ideal kingship: a contradiction in terms? |
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Bruiden Meic Da Réo, the Togail, and the tragic paradox of kingshipPoliticizing pathos: the Togail as dynastic propaganda?; The king without God: heathen present and Christian future?; Conclusion; Afterword: Reading the Togail; Glossary of Jargon and Irish or Latin Terms; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Togail bruidne Da Derga.
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Togail bruidne Da Derga. |
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Irish literature -- Middle Irish, 1100-1550 -- History and criticism.
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Epic literature, Irish -- History and criticism.
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Epic literature, Irish. |
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Kings and rulers in literature.
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Kings and rulers in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1100-1550 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: O'Connor, Ralph. Destruction of Da Derga's hostel. First edition. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780199666133 (OCoLC)806014740 |
| ISBN |
9780191649431 (electronic book) |
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0191649430 (electronic book) |
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9780199666133 (Cloth) |
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019966613X (Cloth) |
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9781299397347 (MyiLibrary) |
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1299397344 (MyiLibrary) |
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9780191744693 |
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0191744697 |
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