TY  - BOOK
AU  - Künzler,Sarah
TI  - Memory and Remembering in Early Irish Literature: Beyond the Backward Look 
T2  - Memory and the Medieval North ,
SN  - 9783110799095
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - Cultural studies
KW  - Englisch+Litertaur+Irland
KW  - Irland
KW  - Memory studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Ireland
KW  - Irish literature
KW  - cultural studies
KW  - memory studies
N1  - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Ancestral Topographies? Memory, Places, and Landscape(s) --; 3 Long Live the Eyewitness: Gaining Access to the Past in Early Irish Literature --; 4 Memory’s Dark Twin? Forgetting and its Cultural Impact --; 5 Toward a Conclusion: Past, Present and Future Revisited --; Appendix --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Ireland possesses an early and exceptionally rich medieval vernacular tradition in which memory plays a key role. What attitudes to remembering and forgetting are expressed in secular early Irish texts? How do the texts conceptualise the past and what does this conceptualisation tell us about the present and future? Who mediates and validates different versions of the past and how is future remembrance guaranteed? This study approaches such questions through close readings of individual texts. It centres on three major aspects of medieval Irish memory culture: places and landscapes, the provision of information about the past by miraculously old eye-witnesses, and the personal, social and cultural impact of forgetting. The discussions shed light on the relationship between memory and forgetting and explore the connections between the past, present and future. This shows the fascinating spatio-temporal identity constructions in medieval Ireland and links the Irish texts to the broader European world. The monograph makes this rich literary sources available to an interdisciplinary audience and is of interest to both a general medievalist audience and those working in Cultural Memory Studies
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110799132
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110799132
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110799132/original
ER  -