The otherworld voyage in early Irish literature
Subtitle: an anthology of criticism
By: Jonathan M. Wooding, editor.
Contributors: Wooding, Jonathan M.
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Navigatio Sancti Brendani; Immram Brain; Seafarer (Anglo-Saxon poem); Epic literature, Irish -- History and criticism; Irish literature -- To 1100 -- History and criticism
Description: xxviii, 289 p. ; 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-277) and index.
Table of contents: title: Some new light on the Brendan legend -- Charles Plummer; title: Clerical sea pilgrimages and the Imrama -- William Flint Thrall; title: On the punishment of sending adrift -- Mary E. Byrne -- An; title: apocryphal 'Book of Enoch and Elias' as a possible source of the Navigatio Sancti Brendani -- Mario Esposito; title: Review of Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis -- James Carney -- The; title: sinless otherworld of Immram Brain -- Proinsias Mac Cana -- The; title: earliest bran material -- James Carney; title: Two observations concerning the Navigatio Brendani -- Ludwig Bieler -- The; title: social background to Irish Peregrinatio -- Thomas Charles-Edwards.; title: In the wake of the saint: The Brendan Voyage, an epic crossing of the Atlantic by leather boat -- J. J. O'Meara -- The; title: location of the otherworld in Irish tradition -- John Carey; title: Two approaches to the dating of Nauigatio Sancti Brendani -- David N. Dumville; title: Ireland and the Antipodes: the heterodoxy of Virgil of Salzburg -- John Carey; title: Some analogues of the Old English Seafarer from Hiberno-Latin sources -- Colin A. Ireland; title: Contributions to a study of the voyages of St Brendan and St Malo -- Séamus Mac Mathúna; title: Allegory in Navigatio Sancti Brendani -- Dorothy Ann Bray -- The; title: role of the Cuilebad in Immram Snédgusa 7 Maic Riagla -- Kevin Murray; title: Subversion at sea: structure, style and intent in the Immrama -- Thomas Owen Clancy; title: Monastic voyaging and the Nauigatio-- Johnathan M. Wooding.