A quest for remembrance : the underworld in classical and modern literature /: the underworld in classical and modern literature. (2020)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- A quest for remembrance : the underworld in classical and modern literature /: the underworld in classical and modern literature. (2020)
- Main Title:
- A quest for remembrance : the underworld in classical and modern literature
- 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.
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