Madeleine (Hrsg.) Scherer

A Quest for Remembrance

The Underworld in Classical and Modern Literature

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Falconer, Rachel (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-00-068263-2
EAN: 9781000682632
Produktnummer: 33216315
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 278 S.
Plattform: PDF

Über den Autor

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