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O'RIORDAN:IRISH BARDIC POETRY H/B (R)
Michelle O´riordan
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Description for O'RIORDAN:IRISH BARDIC POETRY H/B (R)
Hardcover. Irish bardic poetry is an expression of mediaeval European high literary cultures. This work explores the rhetorical reality in the works of poets from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. It presents readings that reveal the world of Irish bardic poetry as a fully chromatic, vibrant, humorous, scholarly and literary enterprise. Num Pages: 486 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 36. Weight in Grams: 831.
Irish bardic poetry is an expression of mediaeval European high literary cultures. Its themes, tropes, and treatments are, along with being an expression of indigenous Irish literary culture, reflexes of the shared classical culture of the Europe of the High Middle Ages. This work explores the rhetorical reality in the works of poets from the thirteenth (Adamh O Fialan) to the seventeenth centuries (Eochaidh O hEoghusa). Emphasis is placed on the literary world of the poetry, building on the metrical, linguistic, textual studies and editions published by scholars over the last century. The readings presented here reveal the world of ... Read more
Irish bardic poetry is an expression of mediaeval European high literary cultures. Its themes, tropes, and treatments are, along with being an expression of indigenous Irish literary culture, reflexes of the shared classical culture of the Europe of the High Middle Ages. This work explores the rhetorical reality in the works of poets from the thirteenth (Adamh O Fialan) to the seventeenth centuries (Eochaidh O hEoghusa). Emphasis is placed on the literary world of the poetry, building on the metrical, linguistic, textual studies and editions published by scholars over the last century. The readings presented here reveal the world of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
486
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
486
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781859184141
SKU
V9781859184141
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About Michelle O´riordan
Michelle O Riordan is an Assistant Professor, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. She is author of The Gaelic Mind and the Collapse of the Gaelic World (Cork University Press, 1990), and coeditor of Celtica 22 (1991), and Celtica 23 (1999)
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