CSANA Yearbook 8-9 is now Available

Narrative in Celtic Tradition: Essays in Honor of Edgar M. Slotkin (CSANA Yearbook 8-9) has just been published by Colgate University Press and can be had for the reasonable price of $35.00.  The volume is edited by Joseph F. Eska and includes a wide variety of articles, nineteen in all, in honor of Professor Slotkin, one of the co-founders of CSANA:

• Dorothy Ann Bray, “The Vita Prima of St. Brigit: A Preliminary Analysis of Its Composition”
• Timothy Corrigan Correll, “Priests and Pisheogues: Fairy Healers, Religious Condemnation, and Narrative Approbation in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Ireland”
• Joanne Findon, “Fabula, Story, and Text: The Case of Compert Conchobuir”
• Hugh Fogarty, “Aislinge Óenguso: A Remscél Reconsidered”
• Patrick K. Ford, “Later Prose Prefaces to Medieval Welsh Poetry”
• Helen Fulton, “Magic Naturalism in the Táin bó Cúailnge”
• Elissa R. Henken, “‘Then Was Spoken the Proverb…’: The Proverb Legend in Medieval Celtic Literature”
• Kaarina Hollo, “Allegoresis and Literary Creativity in Eighth-Century Ireland: The Case of Echtrae Chonnlai"
• Jerry Hunter, “From Death Token to O. Henry Ending: Traditional Narrative and the Early Fiction of Kate Roberts”
• Charles MacQuarrie, “Recognizing Gods in Guises: Identity, Performance, and Performative reading in O’Donnell’s Kern”
• Catherine McKenna, “Angels and Demons in the Pages of Lebor na hUidre”
• Daniel Frederick Melia, “Naked Men, Naked Humor, Naked Narrative?”
• Joseph Falaky Nagy, “The Wisdom of the Couch Potato”
• Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, “Aspects of Memory and Identity in Early Ireland”
• Brynley F. Roberts, “Ystoriaeu Brenhinedd Ynys Brydeyn: A Fourteenth-Century Welsh Brut”
• Patrick Sims-Williams, “Tochmarc Becfhola: A ‘Peculiar Confused Tale’?”
• Maria Tymoczko, “Rewritings, Self-Reflexivity, and the Narrative of Celtic Studies”
• Andrew Welsh, “Myths, Folktales, and Meaning”
• Dan M. Wiley, “The Politics of Myth in Airne Fíngein”