Speaking with the Dead: Explorations in Literature and History

by Jürgen Pieters

This book deals with the special power of literary texts to put us in contact with the past. A large number of authors, coming from different ages, have described this power in terms of 'the conversation with the dead' when we read these texts, we somehow find ourselves conducting a special kind of dialogue with dead authors. The book covers a number of texts and authors that make use of this metaphor - Petrarch, Machiavelli, Sidney, Flaubert, Michelet,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748615881
• ISBN13: 9780748615889
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.4"