A Quest for Remembrance: The Underworld in Classical and Modern Literature - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0367358867 ISBN 13 : 9780367358860

Editeur : Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Madeleine Scherer is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK.

Rachel Falconer is Professor and Chair of Modern English Literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0367358867
• ISBN 13: 9780367358860
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Éditeur: Scherer Madeleine, Falconer Rachel
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