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The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel: Kingship and Narrative Artistry in a Media

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ISBN-13
9780199666133
Book Title
The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel
ISBN
9780199666133

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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 any single 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 was raised 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 invites the 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 contemporary audiences as a questioning exploration of the challenges and paradoxes of kingship.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10
019966613x
ISBN-13
9780199666133
eBay Product ID (ePID)
138834458

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Number of Pages
424 Pages
Publication Name
Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel : Kingship and Narrative Artistry in a Mediaeval Irish Saga
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Subject
Literary Criticism
Type
Textbook
Author
Ralph O'connor
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
26.7 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Height
241mm
Width
163mm
Weight
754g

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Scholarly & Professional
Date of Publication
28/02/2013
Place of Publication
Oxford
Spine
28mm
Genre
Literary Criticism
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Author Biography
Ralph O'Connor studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic and English Literature at the University of Cambridge before becoming a Junior Research Fellow in Irish and Icelandic Literature at St John's College, Cambridge. He is currently Professor of the Literature and Culture of Britain, Ireland, and Iceland at the University of Aberdeen, where he teaches in the departments of Celtic, History, and English. He has published widely on mediaeval Irish and Icelandic and modern British literature. His previous books are Icelandic Histories and Romances (Tempus, 2002), The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science (Chicago, 2007), which won two international book prizes in 2008, and Science as Romance (Pickering & Chatto, 2012).
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Oxford University Press

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