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A quest for remembrance : the underworld in classical and modern literature
- Title
- A quest for remembrance : the underworld in classical and modern literature / edited by Madeleine Scherer and Rachel Falconer.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- ©2020
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- Description
- vi, 272 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Warwick series in the humanities
- Uniform Title
- Warwick series in the humanities.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-4831
- ISBN
- 9780367358860
- 0367358867
- 9780429342509 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019038496
- OCLC
- 1122695539
- Title
- A quest for remembrance : the underworld in classical and modern literature / edited by Madeleine Scherer and Rachel Falconer.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Warwick series in the humanitiesWarwick series in the humanities.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Scherer, Madeleine, editor.Falconer, Rachel, editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: A quest for remembrance New York : Routledge, 2020. 9780429342509 (DLC) 2019038497
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-4831