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Memories of the Classical Underworld in Irish and Caribbean Literature / Madeleine Scherer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Media and Cultural Memory ; 31Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (VII, 316 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110673883
  • 9783110675191
  • 9783110675153
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.899729 23
LOC classification:
  • PN849.C3 .S347 2021
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Methodology -- ‘Into my mind’s unsympathetic thought / They fade away’: Irish Poetry -- ‘The Sea is History’: Derek Walcott -- ‘The Haunted Womb of Imagination’: Wilson Harris -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Dissertation note: PhD Warwick 2019. Summary: 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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PhD Warwick 2019.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Methodology -- ‘Into my mind’s unsympathetic thought / They fade away’: Irish Poetry -- ‘The Sea is History’: Derek Walcott -- ‘The Haunted Womb of Imagination’: Wilson Harris -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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