The Táin

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192803735
Category : Cuchulain (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 311

Book Description
The Táin Bó Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, queen and king of Connacht, and their allies, seeking to carry off the great Brown Bull of Cuailnge. The hero of the tale is Cuchulainn, the Hound of Ulster, who resists the invaders single-handed while Ulster's warriors lie sick. Thomas Kinsella presents a complete and living version of the story. His translation is based on the partial texts in two medieval manuscripts, with eleme...

The Tain

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Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141900091
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
The Tain Bo Cualinge, centrepiece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's great epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, Queen and King of Connacht, and their allies, seeking to carry off the great Brown Bull of Cualige. The hero of the tale is Cuchulainn, the Hound of Ulster, who resists the invaders single-handed while Ulster's warriors lie sick.

The Tain

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Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486817873
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419

Book Description
Also known as The Cattle Raid of Cooley, this ancient Irish legend recounts the heroic feats of Cú Chulainn. Its scenes of fierce combat are interwoven with earthy humor and wild exaggeration.

The Tain of the Mirror

Author: Rodolphe Gasché
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674867017
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
Deconstruction is no game of mirrors, revealing the text as a play of surface against surface. Its more radical philosophical effort is to get behind the mirror and question the very nature of reflection. The Tain of the Mirror explores that gritty surface without which no reflection would be possible.

The Táin

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Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191506397
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 590

The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge

Author: Joseph Dunn
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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The Tain

Author: China Miéville
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781902880648
Category : Vampires
Languages : en
Pages : 89

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Aspects of the Táin

Author: J. P. Mallory
Publisher: Casemate Academic
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
Publisher description: The account of Cú Chulainn's single-handed defence of Ulster against the assembled armies of Queen Medb of Connacht is recognized as the centrepiece of Irish heroic epic as well as a mine of information about the behaviour and beliefs of early Irish. This text attempts to bring together for the modern reader an account of the historical development of the tale, how it succeeds or fails as literature, and to what extent it is a 'window on the Iron Age'.

The Tain of Hamlet

Author: Laurie Johnson
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443869929
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
Shakespeare's Hamlet is considered by many to be the cornerstone of the English literary canon, a play that remains universally relevant. Yet it seems likely that we have spent so long reading the play for its capacity to reflect ourselves that we have lost sight of the thing itself. The goal of this book is to look beyond the Hamlet that has bedazzled critics for centuries, to seek to apprehend the play in all of its historical distinctness. This is not simply the search for what the play me...

The Cattle Raid of Cualnge

Author: L. Winifred Faraday
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613102569
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155

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