Memories of the Classical Underworld in Irish and Caribbean Literature

Madeleine Scherer

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Memories of the Classical Underworld in Irish and Caribbean Literature

Madeleine Scherer

Volume 31 in the series Media and Cultural Memory

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110675153

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About this book

Classical Memories is an intervention into the field of adaptation studies, taking the example of classical reception to show that adaptation is a process that can be driven by and produce intertextual memories. I see ‘classical memories’ as a memory-driven type of adaptation that draws on and reproduces schematic and otherwise de-contextualised conceptions of antiquity and its cultural ‘exports’ in, broadly speaking, the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These memory-driven adaptations differ, often in significant ways, from more traditional adaptations that seek to either continue or deconstruct a long-running tradition that can be traced back to antiquity as well as its canonical points of reception in later ages. When investigating such a popular and widespread set of narratives, characters, and images like those that remain of Graeco-Roman antiquity, terms like ‘adaptation’ and ‘reception’ could and should be nuanced further to allow us to understand the complex interactions between modern works and classical antiquity in more detail, particularly when it pertains to postcolonial or post-digital classical reception. In Classical Memories, I propose that understanding certain types of adaptations as intertextual memories allows us to do just that.

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Madeleine Scherer, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Methodology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
‘Into my mind’s unsympathetic thought / They fade away’: Irish Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
‘The Sea is History’: Derek Walcott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
‘The Haunted Womb of Imagination’: Wilson Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
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Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars interested in Classical Reception, Memory Studies, Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Theory
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 316
Keywords: Classical Reception; Memory Studies; Descent Narrative; Schematic Memory

eBook

Published: September 20, 2021
ISBN: 9783110675153

Hardcover

Published: September 20, 2021
ISBN: 9783110673883