Fragmented Memory - Omission, Selection, and Loss in Ancient and Medieval Literature and History (Hardcover)

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'.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Beitrage zur Altertumskunde
Release date:	March 2022
First published:	2022
Editors:	Nicoletta Bruno • Martina Filosa • Giulia Marinelli
Dimensions:	230 x 150 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	338
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-074038-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General
LSN:	3-11-074038-9
Barcode:	9783110740387

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