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  1. A quest for remembrance
    the underworld in classical and modern literature
    Contributor: Scherer, Madeleine (HerausgeberIn); Falconer, Rachel (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York, NY

  2. A quest for remembrance
    the underworld in classical and modern literature
    Contributor: Scherer, Madeleine (Herausgeber); Falconer, Rachel (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "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... more

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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 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"--...

     

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  3. A quest for remembrance
    the underworld in classical and modern literature
    Contributor: Scherer, Madeleine (HerausgeberIn); Falconer, Rachel (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York, NY

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