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Playing the Hero: Reading the Tin B Cailnge
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9780802038326
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN-10
0802038328
ISBN-13
9780802038326
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46907381
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
277 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Playing the Hero : Reading the Táin Bó Cuailnge
Publication Year
2006
Subject
Medieval, Europe / Medieval, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Features
Revised
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
21.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2007-295908
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Playing Herowill reward those who persevere with an enhanced appreciation of aspects of medieval Ireland's best known literary charcter, Cú Chulanin, and the textual process that brought him into being., Playing Hero will reward those who persevere with an enhanced appreciation of aspects of medieval Ireland's best known literary charcter, Cú Chulanin, and the textual process that brought him into being., Playing Herowill reward those who persevere with an enhanced appreciation of aspects of medieval Ireland's best known literary charcter, Cú Chulanin, and the textual process that brought him into being.--Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Speculum, July 2009
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
891.6/231
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
Playing the Hero is a unique example of more contemporary literary methodologies - post-structuralist, feminist, historicist and beyond - being used to illuminate the Irish saga world., 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 that the scribes' work is both a transmission and a translation, and that their own changing historical circumstances within the space of one hundred years, from the beginning to the end of the twelfth century, determines the specifics of their literary creativity. Playing the Hero is a unique example of more contemporary literary methodologies - post-structuralist, feminist, historicist and beyond - being used to illuminate the Irish saga world. Dooley provides a commentary for the saga, helping to re-animate its literary sophistication. Her work is an interrogation of both the Irish epic hero - a reading of the male through the medium of feminine discourse - and the process whereby violence as normalized in the saga genre can be recovered as problematic and troubling. Dooley's work is groundbreaking and will provoke a wide response in Medieval Irish studies., In Playing the Hero , Ann Dooley examines the surviving manuscript versions of the greatest of the early Irish sagas, the T'in B? 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 that the scribes' work is both a transmission and a translation, and that their own changing historical circumstances within the space of one hundred years, from the beginning to the end of the twelfth century, determines the specifics of their literary creativity. Playing the Hero is a unique example of more contemporary literary methodologies - post-structuralist, feminist, historicist and beyond - being used to illuminate the Irish saga world. Dooley provides a commentary for the saga, helping to re-animate its literary sophistication. Her work is an interrogation of both the Irish epic hero - a reading of the male through the medium of feminine discourse - and the process whereby violence as normalized in the saga genre can be recovered as problematic and troubling. Dooley's work is groundbreaking and will provoke a wide response in Medieval Irish studies.
LC Classification Number
PB1397.T33D66 2006
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