Speaking With the Dead : : Explorations in Literature and History / / Jürgen Pieters.
This book deals with the special power of literary texts to put us in contact with the past. A large number of authors, coming from different ages, have described this power in terms of 'the conversation with the dead': when we read these texts, we somehow find ourselves conducting a speci...
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Pieters, Jürgen, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Speaking With the Dead : Explorations in Literature and History / Jürgen Pieters. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2005 1 online resource (176 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Among Ancient Men: Petrarch, Machiavelli, Sidney and Huygens -- 2 The Gaze of Medusa and the Practice of the Historian: Rubens and Huygens -- 3 The Historical Shiver: Flaubert, Michelet and Keats -- 4 ‘Now Let us Go into this Blind World’: Dante, Virgil, Homer and T. S. Eliot -- 5 The Sounds of Silence: Roland Barthes -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This book deals with the special power of literary texts to put us in contact with the past. A large number of authors, coming from different ages, have described this power in terms of 'the conversation with the dead': when we read these texts, we somehow find ourselves conducting a special kind of dialogue with dead authors.The book covers a number of texts and authors that make use of this metaphor - Petrarch, Machiavelli, Sidney, Flaubert, Michelet, Barthes. In connecting these texts and authors in novel ways, Jürgen Pieters tackles the all-important question of why we remain fascinated with literature in general and with the specific texts that to us are still its backbone. Siituated in the aftermath of New Historicism, the book challenges the idea that literary history as a reading practice stems from a desire to 'speak with the dead'.Key FeaturesOffers a broad survey (a combination of classical literature, Renaissance literature and modern theory and history)Issues a plea for the importance of reading literary texts and the power of literatureDiscusses key figues from the Western canon - Homer, Virgil, Dante, Machiavelli - in light of the idea that we can learn from the past by talking to 'the dead'Combines theoretical discussions of the relationsip between literature and history with close reading of works by major literary authors and historians. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Literary Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 9783110780468 print 9780748615889 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474471619 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474471619 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474471619/original |
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