Memories of the Classical Underworld in Irish and Caribbean Literature

Memories of the Classical Underworld in Irish and Caribbean Literature
Author: Madeleine Scherer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2021-09-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110675153

Classical Memories is an intervention into the field of adaptation studies, taking the example of classical reception to show that adaptation is a process that can be driven by and produce intertextual memories. I see ‘classical memories’ as a memory-driven type of adaptation that draws on and reproduces schematic and otherwise de-contextualised conceptions of antiquity and its cultural ‘exports’ in, broadly speaking, the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These memory-driven adaptations differ, often in significant ways, from more traditional adaptations that seek to either continue or deconstruct a long-running tradition that can be traced back to antiquity as well as its canonical points of reception in later ages. When investigating such a popular and widespread set of narratives, characters, and images like those that remain of Graeco-Roman antiquity, terms like ‘adaptation’ and ‘reception’ could and should be nuanced further to allow us to understand the complex interactions between modern works and classical antiquity in more detail, particularly when it pertains to postcolonial or post-digital classical reception. In Classical Memories, I propose that understanding certain types of adaptations as intertextual memories allows us to do just that.

Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature

Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature
Author: Jacob L. Bender
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2020-09-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030509397

This comparative literature study explores how writers from across Ireland and Latin America have, both in parallel and in concert, deployed symbolic representations of the dead in their various anti-colonial projects. In contrast to the ghosts and revenants that haunt English and Anglo-American letters—where they are largely either monstrous horrors or illusory frauds—the dead in these Irish/Latinx archives can serve as potential allies, repositories of historical grievances, recorders of silenced voices, and disruptors of neocolonial discourse.

A Quest for Remembrance

A Quest for Remembrance
Author: Madeleine Scherer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Classical literature
ISBN: 9780367358860

A Quest for Remembrance brings together a range of arguments exploring connections between the descent into the underworld, also known as katabasis, and various forms of memory.

Culture and Imperialism

Culture and Imperialism
Author: Edward W. Said
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2012-10-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0307829650

A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics continue to see these phenomena as separate. Edward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance. Vast in scope and stunning in its erudition, Culture and Imperialism reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time.

A Quarter of an Hour

A Quarter of an Hour
Author: Leanne O'Sullivan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2018
Genre: FICTION
ISBN: 9781780372235

Caribbean Discourse

Caribbean Discourse
Author: Édouard Glissant
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813913735

Selected essays from the rich and complex collection of Edouard Glissant, one of the most prominent writers and intellectuals of the Caribbean, examine the psychological, sociological, and philosophical implications of cultural dependency.

Memory in Literature

Memory in Literature
Author: S. Nalbantian
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2002-11-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230287123

This book is the first to discover and probe in depth memory phenomena captured in literary works. Using literature as a laboratory for the workings of the mind, this comparative study of writers from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Octavio Paz, including Proust, Breton, Woolf and Faulkner, uncovers valuable material for the classification of the memory process. Nalbantian's daring interdisciplinary work, involving literature, science, and art, forges a new model for dialogue between the disciplines.

Time Passages

Time Passages
Author: George Lipsitz
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1997
Genre: Mass media
ISBN: 9781452905785