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The Bog Body As Mnemotope: Nationalist Archaeologies In Heaney And Tournier, Anthony Purdy
The Bog Body As Mnemotope: Nationalist Archaeologies In Heaney And Tournier, Anthony Purdy
French Studies Publications
The sometimes beautifully preserved Iron Age bodies that used to turn up from time to time in the peat-bogs of Northwestern Europe have moved and intrigued writers since P.V. Glob published his classic archaeological account, The Bog People, in 1965. Locating the specificity of the literary bog body in its ability to compress time, to render the past visible in the present, the article seeks to read the figure as a mnemotope, defined provisionally as any chronotopic motif which manifests the presence of the past, the conscious or unconscious memory traces of a more or less distant period in the …
The Bog Body As Mnemotope: Nationalist Archaeologies In Heaney And Tournier, Anthony Purdy
The Bog Body As Mnemotope: Nationalist Archaeologies In Heaney And Tournier, Anthony Purdy
Anthony Purdy
The sometimes beautifully preserved Iron Age bodies that used to turn up from time to time in the peat-bogs of Northwestern Europe have moved and intrigued writers since P.V. Glob published his classic archaeological account, The Bog People, in 1965. Locating the specificity of the literary bog body in its ability to compress time, to render the past visible in the present, the article seeks to read the figure as a mnemotope, defined provisionally as any chronotopic motif which manifests the presence of the past, the conscious or unconscious memory traces of a more or less distant period in the …