Abstract
CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Narrativity, between Orality and Writing 2.The Fairy tale: Reformulation of a Concept Notes Chapter 1. A Celtic Legacy and Christian Syncretism 1. A Methodological Introduction 2. The Celtic Heredity 3. The Christian Appropriation of Celtic Tradition Notes Chapter 2. The Precursors of Yeats in the Recuperation of the Narrative Tradition 1. The Royal Hibernian Tales 2. Thomas Crofton Croker and His Followers 3. Patrick Kennedy 4. Letitia McClintock, Lady Wilde, Douglas Hyde 5. The Literary Reception of the Written Gaelic Tradition Notes Chapter 3. A Rebirth in the Light of the Tradition 1. The National Question and Literary Rebirth 2. Yeats, the Inspiration of the Irish Revival 3. The Distinguishing Characteristics of Yeats' Collections 4. The Fairy Tale according to Stephens Notes, Chapter 4. The Fairy Tale between fabula and historia 1. The Space-Time Coordinates of the Fairy Tale 2. The Dynamic Established by the Fairy Tale Notes Chapter 5. The Process of Composition of the Fairy Tale 1. The Triangle Composed of Etain, Midir and Eochaid and the Origin of the Fairy Tale 2. An Analysis of the Priomscel and the Structure of the Fairy Tale 3. Classification of the Functions and Characterization of the Fairy Tale Notes Chapter 6. Plurality and Metanarrative in the Fairy Tale 1. Substructure and Metastructure 2. Deep Structure and Surface Structure 3. The Narrativity Produced by the Fairy Tale Notes Chapter 7. The Significance of the Fairy Tale in the Historical and Cultural Context 1. An Indicative Metaphor 2. The Epiphanic and Pragmatic Components of the Fairy Tale 3. The Dialectic between Signifier and Signified Notes Chapter 8. Between the Fairy Tale and Tale 1. The Five Phases of the Fairy Tale 2. The Fairy Tale and the Pseudo-Fairy Tale 3. The Joycian Tale in the Light of the Fairy Tale Notes Chapter 9. Narrative Construction and Re-Construction of the World 1. Paradigm and Syntagma, Fabula and Plot 2. An Essential Dialectic Notes Chapter 10. Beyond Ireland: a General Perspective 1. Narrativity as a Quest for Meaning 2. A Model of Universal Significance Notes Select Bibliography
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