FENIAN CYCLE

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books on: Fenian Cycle  - 555 results

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Folklore and the Fantastic in Twelve Modern Irish Novels
Book by Marguerite Quintelli-Neary; Greenwood Press, 1997
Subjects: Fantasy fiction, English--Irish authors--History and criticism, Folklore in literature, Heroes in literature, Joyce, James--1882-1941--Knowledge--Folklore, Literature and folklore--Ireland--History--20th century, Mythology, Celtic, in literature
...Ulster Cycle could reemerge in the Fenian Cycle, having undergone chronological...the bandits against each other in Fenian Cycle tales. 11 Females link heroes...of his union with Aife. In the Fenian Cycle, Oisin displays a rebellious...
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Encyclopedia of Literature
Book by Joseph T. Shipley; Philosophical Library, 1946
Subjects: Literature--Dictionaries, Indexes, Etc, Literature--History And Criticism
...cycles centering about Tortoise and Hare, a cycle having as its central character a trickster...gross undisciplined appetite called Yo, a cycle of tales concerning the adventures of twins...gives the following categories: 1 animal cycle "cyclo da mythica zoologica" ; 2 tales...
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Gods, Heroes and Kings: The Battle for Mythic Britain
Book by Christopher R. Fee, David A. Leeming; Oxford University Press, 2001
Subjects: British Literature--History And Criticism, Christianity And Other Religions--Great Britain, Literature, Medieval--History And Criticism, Mythology, British, Mythology, Celtic--Great Britain
...represents both life and death, and in its association with menstrual flow it has shaman- istic associations; the monthly cycle of the seeress is tied in many cultures to her ability to prophesy. Such relationships are mythic and folkloric common...
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The Identity of the Scottish Nation: An Historic Quest
Book by William Ferguson; Edinburgh University Press, 1998
Subjects: National Characteristics, Scottish--History, Nationalism--Scotland--History, Scotland--History
...slightly earlier period. Rolleston then summarises the Fenian Cycle, detailing the exploits of Finn Mac Cool, as he is...augmented and reworked in the Middle Ages and later. The Fenian Cycle was to play an important role in the question of Scottish...
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Studies in Irish Literature and History
Book by James Carney; Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1955
Subjects: Irish Literature--History And Criticism
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journal articles on: Fenian Cycle  - 10 results

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Clark's "The Wind and the Snow of Winter" and Celtic Oisin
Journal article by Franklin E. Court; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 33, 1996
Subjects: American literature--20th century, Authors, American--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Celtic literature--Influence, Clark, Walter Van Tilburg--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...key figure in the Irish/ Celtic Fenian Cycle of legends, Clark obviously knew...Fenians and the central hero in the Fenian Cycle of traditional Irish literature...legendary heroes, especially from the Fenian Cycle of Irish lore, are particularly...
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Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism Volume 26: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Appraisals to Current Evaluations
Journal article by Paolo Villani; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 59, 2000
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, vol. 26 (Book)--Reviews
...who were the mediators between men and gods in Celtic cultures. The final thirty pages of this section focus on the Fenian Cycle, the most popular of the Celtic story cycles, that takes its name from the warrior-hero Fionn mac Cumhaill. The Eastern...
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An Atomy of the Novel: Finn O'Brien's 'At Swim-Two-Birds.'
Journal article by David Cohen; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 39, 1993
Subjects: At Swim-Two-Birds (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Irish fiction--Criticism, interpretation, etc., O'Brien, Flann--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...contained over eight-hundred pages of typescript: I told him it was too long. He had got such fun out of sending up the Fenian cycle that he over-indulged himself and the weight of this material seriously unbalanced the latter half of the book...
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Quebec's "America Problem": Differential Threat Perception in the North American Security Community
Journal article by David G. Haglund; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 36, 2006
...serious (to Canada) nineteenth-century security challenge, the Fenian raids. Let us call this specter the "new Fenianism." (29) Can we say that, to the extent the new Fenianism looms as a menace to the peace of North America, it does so in...
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The Metonymics of Translating Marginalized Texts
Journal article by Maria Tymoczko; Comparative Literature, Vol. 47, 1995
Subjects: Literary criticism, Translations
...or even AT 425, the entire animal groom cycle), as well as the traditional lore of France...tales as a whole, the entire corpus of Fenian lore, and Irish traditional literature...Bettelheim (277-310) discusses the animal groom cycle. 10 James Delargy discusses these and...
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magazine articles on: Fenian Cycle  - 2 results

 
 
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Celtic Creatures - A Bestiary of Ancient Ireland
Magazine article by Steenie Harvey; World and I, Vol. 15, June 2000
Subjects: Animals, Mythical--Portrayals, Book of Kells (Sacred work)--Criticism and interpretation, Ireland--Myths and legends, Mythical animals--Portrayals
...recounting the exploits of the Red Branch warriors; and the Fenian cycle, which relates tales of Fionn MacCumhaill and the Fianna warriors. The Celts were avid hunters, and the Fenian cycle seems especially designed to evoke the thrill of the...
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Citizen Hamilton
Magazine article; Artforum International, Vol. 46, Summer 2008
Subjects: Collage--Exhibitions, Hamilton, Richard (British artist and writer)--Exhibitions, Painting (Art)--Exhibitions, Painting--Exhibitions
...saint. Indeed, Hamilton connects him with the unsavory character also called the "citizen" in the Cyclops episode of Ulysses, a Fenian loudmouth whom Joyce associates not only with the legendary Irish chieftain Finn MacCool (whom Hamilton has also portrayed...


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encyclopedia articles on: Fenian Cycle  - 3 results

 
 
1.
Fenian Cycle
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FENIAN CYCLE see Gaelic literature . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Gaelic Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Ulster and the Fenian. The Ulster cycle deals with swaggering...Ossian , the poet of the Fenians. The temper is more...characteristic form of this cycle is the ballad . Its...the Welsh Arthur. The Fenian cycle begins with the composition...
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Ossian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in Ireland and in the Scottish Highlands, with Ossian as the bard who sang of the exploits of Finn and his Fenian cohorts. A later cycle of Ossianic poetry centered on Cuchulain, another traditional hero. Ossian is generally represented as an old...


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