Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel: Kingship and Narrative Artistry in a Mediaeval Irish Saga
This book explores the strange world of Irish sagas and is the first monograph to offer systematic literary analysis of any single native Irish saga. It presents an analysis of the finest of the sagas, The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel, and invites the reader not only to understand this and other Irish sagas, but also to enjoy them as literature.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-966613-3
- EAN: 9780199666133
- Produktnummer: 22681232
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 392 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.5 cm x D3.3 cm 739 g
- Gewicht: 739
Über den Autor
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 andmodern 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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