Memory and Remembering in Early Irish Literature : Beyond the Backward Look / Sarah Künzler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Künzler, Sarah, author.

Series:

Memory and the medieval North series ; Volume 2.

Memory and the medieval North series ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2024]

Summary:

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?.

Contents:

Intro

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

3-11-079913-8

OCLC:

1411307756