Speaking With the Dead : Explorations in Literature and History
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Format
Hardback
ISBN-10
0748615881
ISBN-13
9780748615889
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 23rd, 2005
Print length
176 Pages
Weight
398 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 24.20 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: general
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This book deals with the special power of literary texts to put us in contact with the past. A large number of authors, coming from different ages, have described this power in terms of ‘the conversation with the dead’.
This book deals with the special power of literary texts to put us in contact with the past. A large number of authors coming from different ages, have described this power in terms of ''the conversation with the dead''; when we read these texts, we somehow find ourselves conducting a special kind of dialogue with dead authors.
The book covers a number of texts and authors that make use of this metaphor - Petrarch, Machiavelli, Sidney, Flaubert, Michelet, Barthes. In connecting these texts and authors in novel ways, Jurgen Pieters tackles the all-important question of why we remain fascinated with literature in general and with the specific texts that to us are still its backbone. Situated in the aftermath of New Historicism, the book challenges the idea that literary history as a reading practice stems from a desire to ''speak with the dead''.
The book covers a number of texts and authors that make use of this metaphor - Petrarch, Machiavelli, Sidney, Flaubert, Michelet, Barthes. In connecting these texts and authors in novel ways, Jurgen Pieters tackles the all-important question of why we remain fascinated with literature in general and with the specific texts that to us are still its backbone. Situated in the aftermath of New Historicism, the book challenges the idea that literary history as a reading practice stems from a desire to ''speak with the dead''.
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