
A Quest for Remembrance
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Rachel Falconer is Professor and Chair of Modern English Literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland
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Madeleine Scherer
Chapter 1: The Even longer Descent: Notes on Genesis and Development of Ancient Egyptian Underworld Conceptions and their Interplay with Funerary Practice
Jakob Schneider
Chapter 2: Remembering in the Real World: Katabatic and Natural Deathscapes
Joel Gordon
Chapter 3: The Pestis Within: Concerns of the Underworld in Lucretius and Vergil
Abigail Buglass
Chapter 4: Memories of Rome's Underworld in Lucan's Civil War Narrative
Eleonora Tola
Chapter 5: The Open Door to Elysium in Lucian's True History
A. Everett Beek Chapter 6: 'One of Marlow's inconclusive experiences': The Katabatic Wisdom Tradition in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Karen Borg Cardona
Chapter 7: 'By My Voice I Shall Be Known': T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and the Willing Voices of the Dead
Yi-Chuang E. Lin
Chapter 8: Katabasis: Ancient and Modern Desires for Heroic Memory
Frances Foster
Chapter 9: An Australian-made hell': Postcolonial Katabasis in Alexis Wright's The Swan Book
Arnaud Barras
Chapter 10: Memory and Forgetfulness in Seamus Heaney's Virgilian Underworlds
Rachel Falconer
Chapter 11: 'all must descend to where the stories are kept': Textual Remembrance and Katabasis in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad
Madeleine Scherer
List of Contributors
Index
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