Classical Literature and Learning in Medieval Irish Narrative

Examinations of the use of classical Latin texts, themes and techniques in medieval Irish narrative.

List of contents

Irish narrative literature and the Classical tradition, 900-1300 - Ralph O'Connor
Imtheachta Aeniasa and its place in medieval Irish textual history - Erich Poppe
History and historia: uses of the Troy story in medieval Ireland and Wales - Helen Fulton
The uses of exaggeration in Merugud Uilixis Meic Leirtis and in Fingal Chlainne Tanntail - Robert Crampton
The medieval Irish Wandering of Ulysses between literacy and orality - Barbara Hillers
Demonology, allegory and translation: the Furies and the Morrígan - Michael Clarke
Reconstructing the medieval Irish bookshelf: a case study of Fingal Rónáin and the horse-eared kings - Michael Clarke
'The metaphorical Hector': the literary portrayal of Murchad mac Bríain - Maire Ni Mhaonaigh
Was Classical imitation necessary for the writing of large-scale Irish sagas? Reflections on Táin Bó Cúailnge and the 'watchman device' - Ralph O'Connor
'Wrenching the club from the hand of Hercules': Classical models for medieval Irish compilatio - Abigail Burnyeat
Bibliography

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Ralph O'Connor

Product details

• Authors: Ralph O`connor
• Assisted by: Ralph O'Connor (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.2014
• EAN: 9781843843849
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-384-9
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Studies in Celtic History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism