UID:
almahu_9949383600702882
Umfang:
1 online resource (vi, 272 pages).
ISBN:
9780429342509
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0429342500
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9781000682632
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1000682633
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9781000682816
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1000682811
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1000682994
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9781000682991
Serie:
Warwick series in the humanities
Inhalt:
"A Quest for Remembrance: The Underworld in Classical and Modern literature brings together a range of arguments exploring connections between the descent into the underworld, also known as katabasis, and various forms of memory. Its chapters investigate the uses of the descent topos both in antiquity and in the reception of classical literature in the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. In the process, the volume explores how the hero's quest into the underworld engages with the theme of recovering memories from the past. At the same time, we aim to foreground how the narrative format itself is concerned with forms of commemoration ranging from trans-cultural memory, remembering the literary and intellectual canon, to commemorating important historical events that might otherwise be forgotten. Through highlighting this duality this collection aims to introduce the descent narrative as its own literary genre, a 'memorious genre' related to but distinct from the quest narrative"--
Anmerkung:
Introduction: The Long Descent into the Past; Madeleine Scherer ; ; Chapter 1: The Even longer Descent: Notes on Genesis and Development of Ancient Egyptian Underworld Conceptions and their Interplay with Funerary Practice; Jakob Schneider ; ; Chapter 2: Remembering in the Real World: Katabatic and Natural Deathscapes; Joel Gordon ; ; Chapter 3: The Pestis Within: Concerns of the Underworld in Lucretius and Vergil; Abigail Buglass ; ; Chapter 4: Memories of Rome's Underworld in Lucan's Civil War Narrative; Eleonora Tola ; ; Chapter 5: The Open Door to Elysium in Lucian's True History; A. Everett Beek; ; Chapter 6: 'One of Marlow's inconclusive experiences': The Katabatic Wisdom Tradition in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness; Karen Borg Cardona ; ; Chapter 7: 'By My Voice I Shall Be Known': T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and the Willing Voices of the Dead; Yi-Chuang E. Lin ; ; Chapter 8: Katabasis : Ancient and Modern Desires for Heroic Memory; Frances Foster ; ; Chapter 9: An Australian-made hell': Postcolonial Katabasis in Alexis Wright's The Swan Book Arnaud Barras; ; Chapter 10: Memory and Forgetfulness in Seamus Heaney's Virgilian Underworlds; Rachel Falconer ; ; Chapter 11: 'all must descend to where the stories are kept': Textual Remembrance and Katabasis in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad; Madeleine Scherer List of Contributors Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: A quest for remembrance New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. ISBN 9780367358860
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429342509
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