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Autore: | Seider Aaron M. <1980-> |
Titolo: | Memory in Vergil's Aeneid : creating the past / / Aaron M. Seider [[electronic resource]] |
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.: | 9910787674603321 |
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