Memory in Vergil's Aeneid : creating the past / / Aaron M. Seider [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Seider Aaron M. <1980->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 229 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 873/.01
• Soggetto topico: Memory in literature; Epic poetry, Latin - History and criticism
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Turning toward rome -- The challenge of Troy -- A personal affair: memories of Dido -- The narrator's song -- Imperatives of memory: foundation and fury in Aeneid.
• Sommario/riassunto: Tracing the path from Troy's destruction to Rome's foundation, the Aeneid explores the transition between past and future. As the Trojans struggle to found a new city and the narrator sings of his audience's often-painful history, memory becomes intertwined with a crucial leitmotif: the challenge of being part of a group that survives violence and destruction only to face the daunting task of remembering what was lost. This book offers a new reading of the Aeneid that engages with critical work on memory and questions the prevailing view that Aeneas must forget his disastrous history in order to escape from a cycle of loss. Considering crucial scenes such as Aeneas' reconstruction of Celaeno's prophecy and his slaying of Turnus, this book demonstrates that memory in the Aeneid is a reconstructive and dynamic process, one that offers a social and narrative mechanism for integrating a traumatic past with an uncertain future.
• Titolo autorizzato: Memory in Vergil's Aeneid
• ISBN: 1-139-89237-1; 1-107-28975-0; 1-107-28922-X; 1-107-29411-8; 1-107-29027-9; 1-107-29132-1; 1-139-38284-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462694303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II