The Routledge companion to death and literature. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Companion to death and literature; Death and literature
• Further Information: Note: Edited by W. Michelle Wang, Daniel K. Jernigan, Neil Murphy.
• Editors: Wang, W. Michelle; Jernigan, Daniel K; Murphy, Neil
• Contents: Introduction PART I Traversing the Ontological Divide ; – Introduction The Final Frontier: Science Fictions of Death – Brian McHale "Still I Danced": Performing Death in Ford’s The Broken Heart – Donovan Sherman Death and the Margins of Theatre in Luigi Pirandello – Daniel K. Jernigan Forbidden Mental Fruit? Dead Narrators and Characters from Medieval to Postmodernist Narratives – Jan Alber Literature and the Afterlife – Alice Bennett The Novel as Heartbeat: The Dead Narrator in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones – Neil Murphy Dead Man/and Woman Talking: Narratives from Beyond the Grave – Philippe Carrard The View from Upstream: Authority and Projection in Fontenelle’s Nouveaux dialogues des morts – Jessica Goodman PART II Genres; – Introduction Big Questions: Re-Visioning and Re-Scripting Death Narratives in Children’s Literature – Lesley D. Clement In the U-Bend with Moaning Myrtle: Thinking about Death in YA Literature – Karen Coats Death and Mourning in Graphic Narrative – José Alaniz Death and Documentaries: Heuristics for the Real in an Age of Simulation – Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter Death and the Fanciulla – Reed Way Dasenbrock Death, Literary Form, and Affective Comprehension: Primary Emotions and the Neurological Basis of Genre – Ronald Schleifer PART III Site, Space, and Spatiality; – Introduction Ecocide and the Anthropocene: Death and the Environment – Flore Coulouma A Disney Death: Coco, Black Panther, and the Limits of the Afterlife – Stacy Thompson Suicide in the Early Modern Elegiac Tradition – Kelly McGuire Institutions and Elegies: Viewing the Dead in W. B. Yeats and John Wieners – Barry Sheils and Julie Walsh Death "after Long Silence": Auditing Agamben’s Metaphysics of Negativity in Yeats’s Lyric – Samuel Caleb Wee The Spatialization of Death in the Novels of Virginia Woolf – Ian Tan "Memento Mori": memory, Death, and Posterity in Singapore’s Poetry – Jen Crawford PART IV Rituals, Memorials, and Epitaphs; – Introduction Death and the Dead in Verse Funerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece – Arianna Gullo Fictional Will – Helen Swift Monumentalism, Death, and Genre in Shakespeare – John Tangney Death and Gothic Romanticism: Dilating in/upon the Graveyard, Meditating among the Tombs – Carol Margaret Davison Death, Literature, and the Victorian Era – Jolene Zigarovich The Aura of the Phonographic Relic: Hearing the Voices of the Dead – Angela Frattarola Anecdotal Death: Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the English Poets – Laura Davies Biography: Life after Death – Ira Nadel PART V Living with Death: Writing, Mourning, and Consolation; – Introduction "An immense expenditure of energy come to nothing": Philosophy, Literature, and Death in Peter Weiss’s Abschied von den Eltern – Christopher Hamilton Paradox, Death, and the Divine – Jamie Lin Inner Seeing and Death Anxiety in Aidan Higgins’s Blind Man’s Bluff and Other Life Writing – Lara O’Muirithe Autothanatography and Contemporary Poetry – Ivan Callus When Time Stops: Death and Autobiography in Contemporary Personal Narratives – Rosalía Baena "Grief made her insubstantial to herself": Illness, Aging, and Death in A. S. Byatt’s Little Black Book of Stories – Graham Matthews PART VI Historical Engagements; – Introduction On the Corpse of a Loved One in the Era of Brain Death: Bioethics and Fictions – Catherine Belling Death to the Music of Time: Reticence in Anthony Powell’s Mediated Narratives of Death – Catherine Hoffmann Death and Chinese War Television Dramas: (Re)configuring Ethical Judgments in The Disguiser – W. Michelle Wang Where Do the Disappeared Go? Writing the Genocide in East Timor – Kit Ying Lye "Doubtfull Drede": Dying at the End of the Middle Ages – Walter Wadiak Urbanization, Ambiguity, and Social Death in Charles Brockden Brown’s Arthur Mervyn – Wanlin Li 42. Coda – Julian Gough
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.933548; Death in literature; Death in art
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000220742; 9781000220681; 9781000220711; 9781003107040
• Related ISBNs: 9780367619015
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