A quest for remembrance : the underworld in classical and modern literature /: the underworld in classical and modern literature. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Madeleine Scherer and Rachel Falconer.
• Editors: Scherer, Madeleine; Falconer, Rachel
• Contents: 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 Practice; Jakob Schneider ; ; Chapter 2: Remembering in the Real World: Katabatic and Natural Deathscapes; Joel Gordon ; ; Chapter 3: The Pestis Within: Concerns of the Underworld in Lucretius and Vergil; Abigail Buglass ; ; Chapter 4: Memories of Rome’s Underworld in Lucan’s Civil War Narrative; Eleonora Tola ; ; Chapter 5: The Open Door to Elysium in Lucian’s True History; A. Everett Beek; ; Chapter 6: ‘One of Marlow's inconclusive experiences’: The Katabatic Wisdom Tradition in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness; Karen Borg Cardona ; ; Chapter 7: ‘By My Voice I Shall Be Known’: T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and the Willing Voices of the Dead; Yi-Chuang E. Lin ; ; Chapter 8: Katabasis : Ancient and Modern Desires for Heroic Memory; Frances Foster ; ; Chapter 9: An Australian-made hell’: Postcolonial Katabasis in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book Arnaud Barras; ; Chapter 10: Memory and Forgetfulness in Seamus Heaney’s Virgilian Underworlds; Rachel Falconer ; ; Chapter 11: ‘all must descend to where the stories are kept’: Textual Remembrance and Katabasis in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad; Madeleine Scherer List of Contributors Index
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 272 pages)
• Subjects: 880.09; Classical literature -- History and criticism; Voyages to the otherworld in literature; Literature, Modern -- Classical influences; Memory in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Classical literature; Literature, Modern -- Classical influences; Memory in literature; Voyages to the otherworld in literature; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429342509; 0429342500; 9781000682632; 1000682633; 9781000682816; 1000682811; 9781000682991; 1000682994
• Related ISBNs: 9780367358860
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 09, 2020).
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