Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 272 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-0-429-34250-9
,
978-1-00-068263-2
,
978-1-00-068281-6
Series Statement:
Warwick series in the humanities
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Enthält Beiträge der Konferenz "'A quest for remembrance': the descent into the classical underworld", die am 20. Mai 2017 an der University of Warwick in Coventry stattfand
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-367-35886-0
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Literatur
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Antike
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Katabasis
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Unterwelt
;
Gedächtnis
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Electronic books.
;
Electronic books.
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429342509
URL:
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429342509
