A quest for remembrance: the underworld in classical and modern literature

"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 an...

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Körperschaft: A quest for remembrance: the descent into the classical underworld (Veranstaltung) Coventry (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Scherer, Madeleine 1992- (HerausgeberIn), Falconer, Rachel 1962- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch Tagungsbericht E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2020
Schriftenreihe:Warwick series in the humanities
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung: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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 272 Seiten)
ISBN:9780429342509
9781000682632
9781000682816
DOI:10.4324/9780429342509