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Author:   Judith Fletcher (Professor of History and Ancient Studies, Professor of History and Ancient Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.424kg
ISBN:  

9780198767091

ISBN 10:   0198767099
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   25 April 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Frontmatter List of Figures 0: Introduction 1: Source Texts 1.1: The Odyssean Nekyia 1.2: Heracles and Dionysus 1.3: The Descent of Aeneas 1.4: Orpheus and Eurydice 1.5: Persephone 1.6: Elements of the Underworld Narrative 2: The Ghost of the Father: Spirits of the Postmodern 2.1: Finding the Way in John Barth's Underworld 2.2: The Anxiety of Influence in Neil Gaiman's Underworlds 3:  Engendering the Haunted Text 3.1: Mutations and Hauntings: A.S. Byatt's Angels and Insects 3.2: Mutations: ""Morpho Eugenia"" 3.3: Hauntings: ""The Conjugial Angel"" 3.4: Persephone Interrupted: Coraline 3.5: The Doll's Descent: Searching for Persephone in the Novels of Elena Ferrante 4: The Wanderer's Descent: The Underworlds of Diaspora 4.1: Ascending from Oblivion in Song of Solomon 4.2: Away: Dreams of Hell 4.3: On the Outside Looking In: The Ground Beneath Her Feet 4.4: The Ghost of the Father in State of Wonder 4.5: The Catabatic Diaspora 5: Epilogue Endmatter Bibliography Index"

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The book succeeds in its aim to show first how we are all obsessed with death and what happens to us in death, proving that one of the powerful vehicles for that unresolvable obsession comes in the underworld journey * Paul Chrystal, Classics for All *

Author Information

Judith Fletcher holds a Ph.D. in Ancient Greek from Bryn Mawr College, and is Professor of History and Ancient Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. In addition to numerous articles on Greek poetry and drama, she is the author of Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and co-editor (with Alan H. Sommerstein) of Horkos: The Oath in Greek Society (Liverpool University Press, 2007) and (with Bonnie MacLachlan) of Virginity Revisited: Configurations of the Unpossessed Body (University of Toronto Press, 2007).

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