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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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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