Playing the hero : reading the Irish saga Táin bó Cúailnge / Ann Dooley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dooley, Ann, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Táin bó Cúailnge.

Physical Description:

x, 298 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2006]

Contents:

Introduction: Reading This Saga 3

1 Before Writing: Heroic Inscribing 23

2 Opening the Tain Bo Cuailnge 40

3 A Scribe and His Tain: The H Interpolations in Tain Bo Cuailnge 64

4 Epic Writing and Mythic Reading 101

5 Myth to Epic: The Coming of a God 125

6 The Invention of Women in the Tain 156

7 The Sense of an Ending 185

Epilogue: Their Bodies, Ourselves 204.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-293) and index.

ISBN:

0802038328 :

OCLC:

64344704

Publisher Number:

9780802038326