Fragmented Memory
Produktnummer:
181ba6b06b007c47debf351bcfc19f0bfc
Themengebiete: | Historisches Gedächtnis Textual transmission Verlorene Texte historical and literary memory lost texts Überlieferungsgeschichte |
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Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 07.03.2022 |
EAN: | 9783110740387 |
Auflage: | 1 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 325 |
Produktart: | Gebunden |
Herausgeber: | Bruno, Nicoletta Filosa, Martina Marinelli, Giulia |
Verlag: | De Gruyter |
Untertitel: | Omission, Selection, and Loss in Ancient and Medieval Literature and History |
Produktinformationen "Fragmented Memory"
Chance, in addition to the unavoidable ambiguity caused by time, is one of the main guilty parties in the transmission of ancient texts – or lack thereof. However, the same cannot be said for what concerns the mechanisms of selection and loss of historical and literary memory, where the voluntary awareness of obscuring is often part of a precise aim, thus leading the cultural memory of a literate society to become fragmented. The present volume explores the devices and criteria of selection and loss in Ancient and Medieval texts and the subsequent fragmentation of such literature, but it also addresses the questions of the damnatio memoriae, of literary strategies such as reticence and omission, as well as of known texts deemed lost but re-found thanks to state-of-the-art methods in digitization. The many and diverse nuances of the concepts of omission, selection, and loss throughout Ancient and Medieval literature and history are illustrated through a number of case studies in the four sections of this volume, each examining a different facet of the topic: ‘Mechanisms and criteria of textual loss and selection’, ‘Lost texts re-discovered’, ‘Voluntary omissions and desire for oblivion’, and ‘Re-working the known’.

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