A Quest For Remembrance

Author : Madeleine Scherer,Rachel Falconer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000682991

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A Quest for Remembrance by Madeleine Scherer,Rachel Falconer Pdf

A Quest for Remembrance: The Underworld in Classical and Modern literature brings together a range of arguments exploring connections between the descent into the underworld, also known as katabasis, and various forms of memory. Its chapters investigate the uses of the descent topos both in antiquity and in the reception of classical literature in the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. In the process, the volume explores how the hero’s quest into the underworld engages with the theme of recovering memories from the past. At the same time, we aim to foreground how the narrative format itself is concerned with forms of commemoration ranging from trans-cultural memory, remembering the literary and intellectual canon, to commemorating important historical events that might otherwise be forgotten. Through highlighting this duality this collection aims to introduce the descent narrative as its own literary genre, a ‘memorious genre’ related to but distinct from the quest narrative.

Author : Reza Shah-Kazemi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857713971

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Justice and Remembrance by Reza Shah-Kazemi Pdf

Abi Talib, son-in-law and cousin of the Prophet Muhammad, first Shi'i imam and fourth caliph, is a monumental figure within the Islamic tradition. But despite the immense importance of Ali, there is a dearth of literature in Western languages about his life and thought. This book - the first serious engagement in English with the intellectual principles underpinning his teachings - is therefore a welcome and valuable addition to the sources available. It consists of three parts. Part one introduces the person of Ali in a general manner, and focuses particularly on the spiritual and ethical content of his teachings. Part two evaluates Ali's 'sacred conception of justice'. Part three addresses the theme of spiritual realization through the remembrance of God, the central mystical practice of the Sufis. Justice and Remembrance will be of great value to students and scholars of Islamic thought, as well as to those interested in the relationship between spirituality and ethics.

Author : David Childs
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844685981

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Growing Remembrance by David Childs Pdf

The story of the inspiration for, establishment and evolution of the National Memorial Arboretum is a fascinating one. Sited at Alrewas, Staffordshire, the Arboretum has become the Nations all year round focus for remembering and paying tribute to all who have served their country in both peace and war not only in the armed forces and merchant navy but in the emergency services as well.Planting began in 1997 and was supported by hundreds of organizations both serving and retired. Among the early memorials was a life-size wooded polar bear, for 49th Division, a grove of Irish trees for the Royal Irish Regiment, an Avenue of Chestnuts for the Police and a Chapel of Peace and Forgiveness to mark the coming of the Millennium. Britains war-widows had a rose-garden planted for them while the Far East Prisoners of War managed to fund a small museum to stand alongside a length of railway track brought back from the notorious Burma Railway. In October 2007 H.M. the Queen confirmed the importance of the site when she opened the Armed Forces Memorial to commemorate all service personnel lost on active service since the end of the Second World War; this is especially poignant given the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The importance of the National Memorial Arboretum is well demonstrated by the growing number of stands and the steady increase in visitor numbers.

Author : Madeleine Scherer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110675153

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Memories of the Classical Underworld in Irish and Caribbean Literature by Madeleine Scherer Pdf

Classical Memories is an intervention into the field of adaptation studies, taking the example of classical reception to show that adaptation is a process that can be driven by and produce intertextual memories. I see ‘classical memories’ as a memory-driven type of adaptation that draws on and reproduces schematic and otherwise de-contextualised conceptions of antiquity and its cultural ‘exports’ in, broadly speaking, the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These memory-driven adaptations differ, often in significant ways, from more traditional adaptations that seek to either continue or deconstruct a long-running tradition that can be traced back to antiquity as well as its canonical points of reception in later ages. When investigating such a popular and widespread set of narratives, characters, and images like those that remain of Graeco-Roman antiquity, terms like ‘adaptation’ and ‘reception’ could and should be nuanced further to allow us to understand the complex interactions between modern works and classical antiquity in more detail, particularly when it pertains to postcolonial or post-digital classical reception. In Classical Memories, I propose that understanding certain types of adaptations as intertextual memories allows us to do just that.

Author : Andrew Gordon,Thomas Rist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317044345

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The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England by Andrew Gordon,Thomas Rist Pdf

The early modern period inherited a deeply-ingrained culture of Christian remembrance that proved a platform for creativity in a remarkable variety of forms. From the literature of church ritual to the construction of monuments; from portraiture to the arrangement of domestic interiors; from the development of textual rites to drama of the contemporary stage, the early modern world practiced 'arts of remembrance' at every turn. The turmoils of the Reformation and its aftermath transformed the habits of creating through remembrance. Ritually observed and radically reinvented, remembrance was a focal point of the early modern cultural imagination for an age when beliefs both crossed and divided communities of the faithful. The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England maps the new terrain of remembrance in the post-Reformation period, charting its negotiations with the material, the textual and the performative.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Holocaust Remembrance Day
ISBN : IND:30000001723216

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Days of Remembrance, April 7-14, 1991 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Holocaust Remembrance Day
ISBN : UCR:31210013512346

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Days of Remembrance, April 22-29, 1990 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael J. Thate
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Bible
ISBN : 3161526333

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Remembrance of Things Past? by Michael J. Thate Pdf

In this book, Michael J. Thate offers an experiment in reception criticism in its consideration of the formation and reception of the historical Jesus discourse. He also attempts to historicize Leben-Jesu-Forschung within debates and narratives of secularization. These two foci guide the book through its two parts. First Thate explicates Schweitzer's dominant archival function in Leben-Jesu-Forschung, while aiming to make fragile the "grand architect's" receptive hegemony. Then he combines critical memory theory and other theoretical readings of the material in an attempt to refocus the study of the historical Jesus as early Christian memory politics in the service of identity explication. He attempts to problematize Schweitzer's legacy of a tidy systematic approach in which much of historical Jesus scholarship continues to operate.

Author : Anne Teresa Demo,Bradford Vivian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136633539

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Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form by Anne Teresa Demo,Bradford Vivian Pdf

This volume offers a multifaceted investigation of intersections among visual and memorial forms in modern art, politics, and society. The question of the relationships among images and memory is particularly relevant to contemporary society, at a time when visually-based technologies are increasingly employed in both grand and modest efforts to preserve the past amid rapid social change. The chapters in this book provide valuable insights concerning not only how memories may be seen (or sighted) in visual form but also how visual forms constitute noteworthy material sites of memory. The collection addresses this central theme with a wealth of interdisciplinary and international approaches, featuring conventional scholarly as well as artistic works from such disciplines as rhetoric and communication, art and art history, architecture, landscape studies, and more, by contributors from around the globe.

Author : Albert Grundlingh
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781920689544

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War and Society: Participation and Remembrance by Albert Grundlingh Pdf

The centenary of the First World War presents historians with an opportunity to reflect anew upon South African participation in that war and particularly the role played by South African black and coloured participants in the conflict. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, the author analyses the interplay between war and society: the expectations of different groupings at the outbreak of war; the concerns and constraints which circumscribed the role of black and coloured troops; the nature of the recruiting process and the reasons why men enlisted; the realities of service in what was South-West Africa and East Africa, as well as in France and Palestine; and the socio-political ramifications of war service.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Government publications
ISBN : IND:30000036829947

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Days of Remembrance, April 18-25, 1993 by Anonim Pdf

Introduces the history of Jewish holocaust and provides information on planning commemorative programs.

Author : Lory Lilian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1936009102

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Remembrance of the Past by Lory Lilian Pdf

In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet unexpectedly met Mr. Darcy while visiting Pemberley. In this 'what if' story, Elizabeth Bennet and her relatives - Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner - are in London, ready to start their tour to the Lakes in June. During this time, Elizabeth's path crosses with Mr. Darcy's again. However, Mr. Darcy is not alone in London: besides his close family - Georgiana and Colonel Fitzwilliam - an old and dear friend has returned and claimed a well-deserved place in their lives. This is a story about hopes and desires, about losses and fears, about second chances and happiness. Second Edition (First Edition 2009)

Author : Jude Deveraux
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780671023577

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Remembrance by Jude Deveraux Pdf

When a successful writer is told by a psychic about a past life in Edwardian England and she is hypnotized to remember her past, a mistake is made and she returns there.

Author : United States. 78th Cong., 1st sess., 1943. House,United States. Congress House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UVA:X004788239

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Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives of the United States by United States. 78th Cong., 1st sess., 1943. House,United States. Congress House Pdf

Author : Amy Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351931694

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Hannah Arendt by Amy Allen Pdf

Hannah Arendt was one of the most original and influential social and political theorists of the 20th century. This volume brings together the most important English-language essays of the past 30 years on Arendt's unique and lasting contributions to social and political philosophy.