TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scherer,Madeleine
AU  - Falconer,Rachel
TI  - A quest for remembrance: the underworld in classical and modern literature 
SN  - 9780429342509
AV  - PA3015.R5 
U1  - 880.09 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Classical literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Voyages to the otherworld in literature
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - Classical influences
KW  - Memory in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429342509
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -