A woman's words
Emer and female speech in the Ulster Cycle
by Joanne Findon
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A 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.
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Emer (Legendary character), History, History and criticism, Irish Epic literature, Language, Languages, Medieval Tales, Speech in literature, Tales, Women, Women and literature, Irish literature, history and criticism, Women in literature, Feminist literary criticismTimes
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A woman's words: Emer and female speech in the Ulster Cycle
1997, University of Toronto Press
in English
0802008658 9780802008657
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-203) and index.
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