Birdman, Fly: A Reconsideration of Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds and the Pre-Christian Cloak of the Sweeney Tales
The first section of this article provides context for Brian O'Nolan's At Swim-Two-Birds (1939), situating original, early textual tensions within the history of ascetic revival in Ireland in the late eighth and early ninth centuries. The second section offers a comparative look at O'...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2023
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2023, Volume: 72, Issue: 2, Pages: 241-267 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBF British Isles |
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Monasticism
B Irish literary history B Celtic Christianity B Brian O'Nolan B Asceticism |
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| Summary: | The first section of this article provides context for Brian O'Nolan's At Swim-Two-Birds (1939), situating original, early textual tensions within the history of ascetic revival in Ireland in the late eighth and early ninth centuries. The second section offers a comparative look at O'Nolan's translation alongside J. G. O'Keeffe's 1913 touchstone text and Seamus Heaney's 1982 rendition of it. The final section examines two contemporary reconceptual film settings of the Sweeney tale to consider how the tale is reimagined in post-state, gendered, and secular contexts. Fragmented elements of ascetism endure via this endlessly changing tale for Celtic Christianity's contested center. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2023.a904919 |