The Voyage to the Otherworld Island in Early Irish Literature
Author : Christa Maria Löffler
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Christa Maria Löffler
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan M. Wooding
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :
With The Otherworld in Irish Literature and History, Jonathan Wooding presents a major collection of essays by some of the best-known academics in Ireland, Britain and America today.
Author : Charles D. Wright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,99 MB
Release : 1993-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521419093
Charles Wright identifies the characteristic features of Irish Christian literature which influenced Anglo-Saxon vernacular authors. As a full-length study of Irish influence on Old English religious literature, the book will appeal to scholars in Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon studies, and Old and Middle Irish literature.
Author : Patrick Sims-Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0199588651
Patrick Sims-Williams provides an approach to some of the issues surrounding Irish literary influence on Wales, situating them in the context of the rest of medieval literature and international folklore.
Author : Jude S. Mackley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,93 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9004166629
"The Legend of St Brendan" is a study of two accounts of a voyage undertaken by Brendan, a sixth-century Irish saint. The immense popularity of the Latin version encouraged many vernacular translations, including a twelfth-century Anglo-Norman reworking of the narrative which excises much of the devotional material seen in the ninth-century "Navigatio Sancti Brendani abbatis" and changes the emphasis, leaving a recognisably secular narrative. The vernacular version focuses on marvellous imagery and the trials and tribulations of a long sea-voyage. Together the two versions demonstrate a movement away from hagiography towards adventure. Studies of the two versions rarely discuss the elements of the fantastic. Following a summary of authorship, audiences and sources, this comparative study adopts a structural approach to the two versions of the Brendan narrative. It considers what the fantastic imagery achieves and addresses issues raised with respect to theological parallels.
Author : Sarah Künzler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110799138
Ireland possesses an early and exceptionally rich medieval vernacular tradition in which memory plays a key role. What attitudes to remembering and forgetting are expressed in secular early Irish texts? How do the texts conceptualise the past and what does this conceptualisation tell us about the present and future? Who mediates and validates different versions of the past and how is future remembrance guaranteed? This study approaches such questions through close readings of individual texts. It centres on three major aspects of medieval Irish memory culture: places and landscapes, the provision of information about the past by miraculously old eye-witnesses, and the personal, social and cultural impact of forgetting. The discussions shed light on the relationship between memory and forgetting and explore the connections between the past, present and future. This shows the fascinating spatio-temporal identity constructions in medieval Ireland and links the Irish texts to the broader European world. The monograph makes this rich literary sources available to an interdisciplinary audience and is of interest to both a general medievalist audience and those working in Cultural Memory Studies.
Author : Robert Easting
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780859914239
This bibliography covers visions of Heaven and Hell - or, more usually, Purgatory and Earthly Paradise - in 19 medieval texts relating seven visions: the vision of St Paul, or the Eleven Pains of Hell; St Patrick's purgatory; the vision of Tundale; a revelation of purgatory; the revelation of the Monk of Eynsham; the vision of Fursey; and the vision of Edmund Leversedge.
Author : Jonathan M. Wooding
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,30 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846825569
Prominent in the literature of early Ireland are the tales known as echtrai (adventures) and immrama (voyages), stories telling of journeys to the Otherworld of Celtic legend. These tales have long held a fascination for both scholars and general readers, but there is no satisfactory, comprehensive treatment of them in print. Now available in paperback, this anthology presents a selection of the most important studies of the subject, to which is added a number of new essays representing the current state of scholarship. A general introduction is provided and an extensive bibliography. Containing the most important critical materials for an understanding of the Irish Otherworld Voyage legends, this anthology will be of interest and use to teachers and students of early Irish history and literature, comparative literature and mythology.
Author : Patricia Monaghan
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1438110375
Presents an illustrated A to Z reference containing over 1,000 entries providing information on Celtic myths, fables and legends from Ireland, Scotland, Celtic Britain, Wales, Brittany, central France, and Galicia.
Author : Eleazar M. Meletinsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 11,27 MB
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135599068
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.