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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pieters, Jürgen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([vi], 154 p.) : ill., port.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book deals with the power of literary texts to put us in contact with the past. Many authors, coming from different ages have described this power in terms of 'the conversation with the dead': when we read these texts, we find ourselves conducting a special kind of dialogue with dead authors.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

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

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

3 The Historical Shiver: Flaubert, Michelet and Keats

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

5 The Sounds of Silence: Roland Barthes

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-7161-7

0-7486-5202-7

0-7486-7958-8