Arks Of Memory - How Story Carried Civilization Through Fire #998343

di Dr. Juan Carlos Rey

Crow's Cupboard Press

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Arks of Memory: How Story Carried Civilization Through Fire asks one of civilization’s oldest questions: how does knowledge survive when the world that created it disappears?
Dr. Juan Carlos Rey traces the hidden architectures by which cultures carried memory across war, exile, religious change, lost languages, ruined libraries, broken traditions, and technological upheaval. From Homeric epic and Hesiodic genealogy to Alexandria, the Argonautica, the Hebrew Bible, the Mahabharata, Mesopotamian tablets, Egyptian funerary texts, medieval manuscripts, print culture, digital archives, and artificial intelligence, Rey reveals how story itself can become a vessel for survival.
At the heart of the book is the concept of the literary ark: a work capable of carrying names, rituals, places, genealogies, technical knowledge, beliefs, and fragments of vanished worlds into a future their creators could never have foreseen.
Rejecting romantic claims of secret codes or perfect preservation, Arks of Memory examines what survives, what changes in transmission, and what every act of preservation leaves behind.
Erudite, accessible, and sweeping in scope, this is a history of humanity’s long struggle against oblivion, and of the stories that kept carrying civilization after the shelves were gone.

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ISBN:: 9781971418407
Formato:: ebook
Editore:: Crow's Cupboard Press
Anno di pubblicazione:: 2026
Dimensione:: 3.53 MB
Protezione:: nessuna
Lingua:: Inglese
Autori:: Dr. Juan Carlos Rey