Conversing with angels and ancients : literary myths of medieval Ireland /
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 abo...
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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997. |
Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |