Speaking with the Dead - Explorations in Literature and History (Hardcover)

The book covers a number of texts and authors that make use of this metaphor -- Petrarch, Machiavelli, Sidney, Flaubert, Michelet, Barthes. In connecting these texts and authors in novel ways, JA1/4rgen Pieters tackles the all-important question of why we remain fascinated with literature in general and with the specific texts that to us are still its backbone. Siituated in the aftermath of New Historicism, the book challenges the idea that literary history as a reading practice stems from a desire to 'speak with the dead'.

Key Features

Offers a broad survey (a combination of classical literature, Renaissance literature and modern theory and history)

Issues a plea for the importance of reading literary texts and the power of literature

Discusses key figues from the Western canon -- Homer, Virgil, Dante, Machiavelli -- in light of the idea that we can learn from the past by talking to 'the dead'.

Combines theoretical discussions of the relationsip between literature and history with close reading of works by major literary authors and historians.

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