Speaking with the dead : explorations in literature and history / Jürgen Pieters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pieters, Jürgen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and history.

Physical Description:

154 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2005]

Summary:

Jurgen Pieters Discusses 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." Pieters explores a number of authors that make use of this metaphor, including Petrarch, Machiavelli, Sidney, Flaubert, Michelet, and Barthes.

Contents:

1 Among Ancient Men: Petrarch, Machiavelli, Sidney and Huygens 12

2 The Gaze of Medusa and the Practice of the Historian: Rubens and Huygens 54

3 The Historical Shiver: Flaubert, Michelet and Keats 85

4 'Now Let us Go into this Blind World': Dante, Virgil, Homer and T. S. Eliot 104

5 The Sounds of Silence: Roland Barthes 121.

Notes:

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

0748615881

OCLC:

58050870