The Tain
The Tain

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Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2008-10-02

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0141900091

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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 Táin
The Táin

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0192803735

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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
The Tain

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Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2018-01-16

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 0486817873

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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
The Tain of the Mirror

Author: Rodolphe Gasché

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780674867017

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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
The Táin

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Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2002-09-26

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 0191506397

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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 elements from other versions, and adds a group of related stories which prepare for the action of the Táin. Illustrated with brush drawings by Louis le Brocquy, this edition provides a combination of medieval epic and modern art.

The Tain
The Tain

Author: China Miéville

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 9781902880648

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Aspects of the Táin
Aspects of the Táin

Author: J. P. Mallory

Publisher: Casemate Academic

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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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'.

Playing the Hero
Playing the Hero

Author: Ann Dooley

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0802038328

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Playing the Hero is a unique example of more contemporary literary methodologies – post-structuralist, feminist, historicist and beyond – being used to illuminate the Irish saga world.

The Tain of Hamlet
The Tain of Hamlet

Author: Laurie Johnson

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-10-17

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1443869929

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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...