Quest for Remembrance

The Underworld in Classical and Modern Literature

AvMadeleine Scherer,Rachel Falconer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-11-27
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:494 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Warwick Series in the Humanities
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367358860

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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

Innehållsförteckning

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 PracticeJakob Schneider Chapter 2: Remembering in the Real World: Katabatic and Natural DeathscapesJoel Gordon Chapter 3: The Pestis Within: Concerns of the Underworld in Lucretius and VergilAbigail Buglass Chapter 4: Memories of Rome’s Underworld in Lucan’s Civil War NarrativeEleonora Tola Chapter 5: The Open Door to Elysium in Lucian’s True HistoryA. Everett Beek Chapter 6: ‘One of Marlow's inconclusive experiences’: The Katabatic Wisdom Tradition in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of DarknessKaren Borg Cardona Chapter 7: ‘By My Voice I Shall Be Known’: T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and the Willing Voices of the DeadYi-Chuang E. Lin Chapter 8: Katabasis: Ancient and Modern Desires for Heroic MemoryFrances Foster Chapter 9: An Australian-made hell’: Postcolonial Katabasis in Alexis Wright’s The Swan BookArnaud Barras Chapter 10: Memory and Forgetfulness in Seamus Heaney’s Virgilian UnderworldsRachel Falconer Chapter 11: ‘all must descend to where the stories are kept’: Textual Remembrance and Katabasis in Margaret Atwood's The PenelopiadMadeleine Scherer List of ContributorsIndex

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