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019 _a(OCoLC)1013958039
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020 _a9781442670549
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024 7 _a10.3138/9781442670549
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781442670549
035 _a(DE-B1597)464150
035 _a(OCoLC)944178447
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aPB1397.C8
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072 7 _aLIT011000
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082 0 4 _a891.6/23109/351
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aFindon, Joanne
_eautore
245 1 2 _aA Woman's Words :
_bEmer and Female Speech in the Ulster Cycle /
_cJoanne Findon.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[1997]
264 4 _c©1997
300 _a1 online resource (224 p.)
336 _atext
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347 _atext file
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520 _aA Woman's Words is the first in-depth analysis of Middle Irish literature from a feminist standpoint, and the first formal critical discussion of the representation of female speech in medieval Irish literature. Joanne Findon analyses the representation of Emer, the wife of the great Irish hero Cu Chulainn, in four linked medieval Irish tales, and discusses Emer's ability to use powerful, effective words to change her fictional world and the audience's reading of that fictional world. A Woman's Words considers Emer as a literary figure rather than a mythic archetype or a reflection of a pre-Christian Celtic goddess. Emer and the narratives she inhabits are discussed as literary constructs, and are considered within the historical and legal milieu in which these tales were told, recorded, and read. Findon places Emer within the wider context of medieval literature in general as an unusual and compelling example of a heroic secular woman, married and fully integrated into her aristocratic society and yet capable of speaking out against its abuses. Her freedom to speak and be heard is remarkable in the light of prevalent later medieval impulses to silence women. By employing speech act theory to analyse Emer's discourse, and by viewing and interpreting the texts through the lens of current feminist criticism, Joanne Findon seeks to bring Middle Irish literature into the arena of current debates, particularly among feminist medievalists, and to offer a new approach to reading female characters in medieval Irish literature.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aEmer (Legendary character).
650 0 _aEpic literature, Irish
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aSpeech in literature.
650 0 _aTales, Medieval
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aWomen in literature.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442670549
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