TY - JOUR
T1 - Compilation as Creative Artistry
T2 - A Reassessment of ‘Narrative Inconsistency’ in Togail Bruidne Da Derga
AU - O'Connor, Ralph James
N1 - Contains only minor overlap with my book The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel: the two pieces have been written to complement each other and stand independently.
PY - 2013/7
Y1 - 2013/7
N2 - The Irish saga Togail Bruidne Da Derga has often been described as a tale riddled with narrative inconsistencies deriving from multiple, conflicting sources. In this paper I revisit all thirty of the inconsistencies alleged and demonstrate that some of them are illusory, some of them are real but trivial in narrative terms, and most of them are the result of deliberate artistic strategies which work to make the narrative more, not less, coherent.
AB - The Irish saga Togail Bruidne Da Derga has often been described as a tale riddled with narrative inconsistencies deriving from multiple, conflicting sources. In this paper I revisit all thirty of the inconsistencies alleged and demonstrate that some of them are illusory, some of them are real but trivial in narrative terms, and most of them are the result of deliberate artistic strategies which work to make the narrative more, not less, coherent.
M3 - Article
SN - 1353-0089
VL - 65
SP - 1
EP - 48
JO - Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies
JF - Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies
IS - -
ER -