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Fragmented Memory - Omission, Selection, and Loss in Ancient and Medieval Literature and History (Hardcover)
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Fragmented Memory - Omission, Selection, and Loss in Ancient and Medieval Literature and History (Hardcover)
Series: Beitrage zur Altertumskunde
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Chance, in addition to the unavoidable ambiguity caused by time, is
one of the main guilty parties in the transmission of ancient texts
- or lack thereof. However, the same cannot be said for what
concerns the mechanisms of selection and loss of historical and
literary memory, where the voluntary awareness of obscuring is
often part of a precise aim, thus leading the cultural memory of a
literate society to become fragmented. The present volume explores
the devices and criteria of selection and loss in Ancient and
Medieval texts and the subsequent fragmentation of such literature,
but it also addresses the questions of the damnatio memoriae, of
literary strategies such as reticence and omission, as well as of
known texts deemed lost but re-found thanks to state-of-the-art
methods in digitization. The many and diverse nuances of the
concepts of omission, selection, and loss throughout Ancient and
Medieval literature and history are illustrated through a number of
case studies in the four sections of this volume, each examining a
different facet of the topic: 'Mechanisms and criteria of textual
loss and selection', 'Lost texts re-discovered', 'Voluntary
omissions and desire for oblivion', and 'Re-working the known'.
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