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Ollam - Studies in Gaelic and Related Traditions in Honor of Tomas O Cathasaigh (Hardcover): Matthieu Boyd Ollam - Studies in Gaelic and Related Traditions in Honor of Tomas O Cathasaigh (Hardcover)
Matthieu Boyd; Anders Ahlqvist, Fergus Kelly, Patricia Kelly, Kim R. McCone, …
R2,993 Discovery Miles 29 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ollam ("ollav"), named for the ancient title of Ireland's chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomas O Cathasaigh, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world of early Irish saga literature. It is a complement to his own book of essays, Coire Sois, the Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga, also edited by Matthieu Boyd (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), and a sequel to his classic monograph The Heroic Biography of Cormac mac Airt (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1977) and as such it begins to show the richness of his legacy. The essays in Ollam represent cutting-edge research in Celtic philology and historical and literary studies. They form three clusters: heroic legend; law and language; and poetry and poetics. The 21 contributors are among the best Celtic Studies scholars of their respective generations, whether they are rising stars or great professors at the finest universities around the world. The book has a Foreword by William Gillies, Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh and former President of the International Congress of Celtic Studies, who also contributed an essay on courtly love-poetry in the Book of the Dean of Lismore. Other highlight include a new edition and translation of the famous poem Messe ocus Pangur ban; a suite of articarticles on the ideal king of Irish tradition, Cormac mac Airt; and studies on well-known heroes like Cu Chulainn and Finn mac Cumaill. This book will be a must-have, and a treat, for Celtic specialists. To nonspecialists it offers a glimpse at the vast creative energy of Gaelic literature through the ages and of Celtic Studies in the twenty-first century.

Ollam - Studies in Gaelic and Related Traditions in Honor of Tomas O Cathasaigh (Paperback): Matthieu Boyd Ollam - Studies in Gaelic and Related Traditions in Honor of Tomas O Cathasaigh (Paperback)
Matthieu Boyd; Anders Ahlqvist, Fergus Kelly, Patricia Kelly, Kim R. McCone, …
R1,153 Discovery Miles 11 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ollam ("ollav"), named for the ancient title of Ireland's chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomas O Cathasaigh, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world of early Irish saga literature. It is a complement to his own book of essays, Coire Sois, the Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga, also edited by Matthieu Boyd (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), and a sequel to his classic monograph The Heroic Biography of Cormac mac Airt (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1977) and as such it begins to show the richness of his legacy. The essays in Ollam represent cutting-edge research in Celtic philology and historical and literary studies. They form three clusters: heroic legend; law and language; and poetry and poetics. The 21 contributors are among the best Celtic Studies scholars of their respective generations, whether they are rising stars or great professors at the finest universities around the world. The book has a Foreword by William Gillies, Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh and former President of the International Congress of Celtic Studies, who also contributed an essay on courtly love-poetry in the Book of the Dean of Lismore. Other highlight include a new edition and translation of the famous poem Messe ocus Pangur ban; a suite of articarticles on the ideal king of Irish tradition, Cormac mac Airt; and studies on well-known heroes like Cu Chulainn and Finn mac Cumaill. This book will be a must-have, and a treat, for Celtic specialists. To nonspecialists it offers a glimpse at the vast creative energy of Gaelic literature through the ages and of Celtic Studies in the twenty-first century.

Conversing with Angels and Ancients - Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland (Paperback, New): Joseph Falaky Nagy Conversing with Angels and Ancients - Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland (Paperback, New)
Joseph Falaky Nagy
R1,010 R957 Discovery Miles 9 570 Save R53 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How does a written literature come into being within an oral culture, and how does such a literature achieve and maintain its authority? Joseph Falaky Nagy addresses those issues in his wide-ranging reading of the medieval literature of Ireland, from the writings of St. Patrick to the epic tales about the warrior Cu Chulainn. These texts, written in both Latin and Irish, constitute an adventurous and productive experiment in staging confrontations between the written and the spoken, the Christian and the pagan. The early Irish literati, primarily clerics living within a monastic milieu, produced literature that included saints' lives, heroic sagas, law tracts, and other genres. They sought to invest their literature with an authority different from that of the traditions from which they borrowed, native and foreign. To achieve this goal, they cast many of their texts as the outcome of momentous dialogues between saints and angelic messengers or remarkable interviews with the dead, who could reveal some insight from the past that needed to be rediscovered by forgetful contemporaries. Conversing with angels and ancients, medieval Irish writers boldly inscribed their visions of the past onto the new Christian order and its literature. Nagy includes portions of the original Latin and Irish texts that are not readily available to scholars, along with full translations."

Conversing with Angels and Ancients - Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland (Hardcover): Joseph Falaky Nagy Conversing with Angels and Ancients - Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland (Hardcover)
Joseph Falaky Nagy
R3,659 Discovery Miles 36 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Memory and the Modern in Celtic Literatures (Hardcover): Joseph Falaky Nagy Memory and the Modern in Celtic Literatures (Hardcover)
Joseph Falaky Nagy
R1,077 Discovery Miles 10 770 Out of stock

Each issue of the Yearbook has its own theme, includes an editor s introduction and index, and features cutting-edge, peer-reviewed articles, often based on papers given at meetings of the Celtic Studies Association of North America. Contributors to this issue include: M che l Mac Craith, Catherine McKenna, Damian McManus, the late M irt n Briain, and Ruair h ig nn. Topics include images of Utopia in bardic verse, late Ulster-cycle tales, Gaelic love poetry, and the art of the Welsh poetic anthology.

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