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Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge - A Companion to Early Irish Saga (Paperback)
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Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge - A Companion to Early Irish Saga (Paperback)
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Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish
Saga offers thirty-one previously published essays by Tomás Ó
Cathasaigh, which together constitute a magisterial survey of early
Irish narrative literature in the vernacular. Ó Cathasaigh has
been called “the father of early Irish literary criticism,”
with writings among the most influential in the field. He pioneered
the analysis of the classic early Irish tales as literary texts, a
breakthrough at a time when they were valued mainly as repositories
of grammatical forms, historical data, and mythological debris. All
four of the Mythological, Ulster, King, and Finn Cycles are
represented here in readings of richness, complexity, and
sophistication, supported by absolute philological rigor and yet
easy for the non-specialist to follow. The book covers key terms,
important characters, recurring themes, rhetorical strategies, and
the narrative logic of this literature. It also surveys the work of
the many others whose explorations were launched by Ó Cathasaigh's
first encounters with the literature. As the most authoritative
single volume on the essential texts and themes of early Irish
saga, this collection will be an indispensable resource for
established scholars, and an ideal introduction for newcomers to
one of the richest and most under-studied literatures of medieval
Europe.
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