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  1. Wake rites
    the ancient Irish rituals of Finnegans Wake
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Univ. Press of Florida, Gainesville [u.a.]

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  2. Wake Rites
    The Ancient Irish Rituals of Finnegans Wake
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  UPF, Gainesville

    Many scholars of Finnegans Wake have long suspected that a key to the Wake lay deep within the core of Irish myth. George Gibson proposes a new interpretation of the novel, based upon a previously unrecognized paradigm from Irish mythology underlying... more

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    Many scholars of Finnegans Wake have long suspected that a key to the Wake lay deep within the core of Irish myth. George Gibson proposes a new interpretation of the novel, based upon a previously unrecognized paradigm from Irish mythology underlying the entirety of the work. This mythic structure derives from the ancient rituals and events collectively known as the Teamhur Feis (the Rites of Tara), the most important religious festival conducted in pre-Christian Ireland

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813028705
    Series: Florida James Joyce Series
    Scope: Online-Ressource (297 p.)
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    Table of Contents; List of Figures viii; List of Tables ix; Foreword xi; Preface xiii; List of Abbreviations xv; 1. Introduction 1; 2. The Day of the Wake 25; 3. The Sigla Group at the Teamhur Feis 35; 4. The Fall of the All-Father 91; 5. The Funeral Games at Valleytemple 134; 6. The Return of Solsking the First 179; 7. The Etiological Myths 209; 8. The Recovery of the Dark Tongue 219; Coda: The Meta-Celtic Canon 237; Notes 239; Bibliography 249; Index 261;