A woman's words : Emer and female speech in the Ulster Cycle / Joanne Findon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Findon, Joanne, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epic literature, Irish--History and criticism.

Epic literature, Irish.

Women--Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.

Women.

Tales--Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--History and criticism.

Tales.

Women and literature--Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland).

Women and literature.

Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--Languages.

Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland).

Genre:

Livres numeriques.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Canada] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"A Woman's Words is the first in-depth analysis of Middle Irish literature from a feminist standpoint, and the first formal critical discussion of the representation of female speech in medieval Irish literature. Joanne Findon analyses the representation of Emer, the wife of the great Irish hero Cu Chulainn, in four linked medieval Irish tales, and discusses Emer's ability to use powerful, effective words to change her fictional world and the audience's reading of that fictional world." "A Woman's Words considers Emer as a literary figure rather than a mythic archetype or a reflection of a pre-Christian Celtic goddess. Emer and the narratives she inhabits are discussed as literary constructs, and are considered within the historical and legal milieu in which these tales were told, recorded, and read."--Jacket.

Contents:

1. The Wooing of Emer: The Sweet Speech of Courtship

2. Bricriu's Feast: Women's Words as Weapons

3. The Death of Aife's Only Son: 'Do not slay your only son'

4. The Wasting Sickness of Cu Chulainn: The Language of Desire.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-00837-4

9786612008375

1-4426-7054-1

OCLC:

288075667