Configuring Memory in Czech Family Sagas - The Art of Forgetting in Generic Tradition

This book explores how family sagas may configure family memory. Readers of this book will not only learn more about the genre of family saga but also be encouraged to reflect on their own family memories.

List of contents

Introduction: Why Memory? Why Family Sagas?
Chapter 1: Literature, Memory, Genre
Chapter 2: The Memory of the House
Chapter 3: The Memory of Family Rituals
Chapter 4: Memory Hidden in the Family Narrative
Chapter 5: Family Memory and the Logic of the Narrative
Conclusion

About the author

Marcin Filipowicz is associate professor at Univerzita Hradec Králové

Summary

This book explores how family sagas may configure family memory. Readers of this book will not only learn more about the genre of family saga but also be encouraged to reflect on their own family memories.

Product details

• Authors: Marcin Filipowicz
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781793648495
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-849-5
• No. of pages: 218
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Eastern Europe, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, Czech Republic, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Czechia, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern