Narrating death : the limit of literature /: the limit of literature. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Daniel K. Jernigan, Walter Wadiak, Michelle Wang.
• Editors: Jernigan, Daniel K; Wadiak, Walter, 1977-; Wang, Michelle
• Contents: List of Contributors Introduction DANIEL K. JERNIGAN PART I The Uncrossable Border 1 Photography and First-Person Death: Derrida, Barthes, Poe KEVIN RIORDAN 2 "This memoryall men may have in mynd": Everyman and the Work of Mourning WALTER WADIAK 3 From Nothing to Never? Facing Death in King Lear MICHAEL NEILL 4 "Is there no danger in counterfeiting death?": Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid DANIEL K. JERNIGAN PART II Trajectories 5 "She is the God of Calvin, she sees the beginning and the end": Narrating Life and Death in the Fiction of Muriel Spark JOSEPH H. O’MEALY 6 Talking to the Dead: Narrative Closure and the Political Unconscious in Neil Jordan’s Fiction KEITH HOPPER 7 Samuel Johnson and the Grammar of Death LAURA DAVIES 8 Death and Romance in Sir Orfeo ELIZABETH ALLEN PART III Aesthetic Crossings 9 Death and the Maidens: John Banville’s Ekphrastic Storyworlds NEIL MURPHY 10 Blood Meridian, the Sublime, and Aesthetic Narrativizations of Death W. MICHELLE WANG 11 Murder Amidst the Chocolates: Martin McDonagh’s Multifaceted Uses of Death in In Bruges WILLIAM C. BOLES 12 The Ruined Voice in Tom Murphy’s Bailegangaire CHERYL JULIA LEE Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.933548; Death in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429755675; 9780429755682; 9780429755668; 9780429424663
• Related ISBNs: 9781138360365
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