The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature

Herausgeber: Wang, W Michelle; Murphy, Neil; Jernigan, Daniel

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Produktbeschreibung

This Collection seeks to understand how literature always been deeply engaged with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 490
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 175mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9780367619015
• ISBN-10: 0367619016
• Artikelnr.: 60006975

Autorenporträt

W. Michelle Wang is Assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Daniel K. Jernigan is Associate Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Neil Murphy is Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I Traversing the Ontological Divide
- Introduction
1. The Final Frontier: Science Fictions of Death
- Brian McHale
2. "Still I Danced": Performing Death in Ford's The Broken Heart
- Donovan Sherman
3. Death and the Margins of Theatre in Luigi Pirandello
- Daniel K. Jernigan
4. Forbidden Mental Fruit? Dead Narrators and Characters from Medieval
to Postmodernist Narratives
- Jan Alber
5. Literature and the Afterlife
- Alice Bennett
6. The Novel as Heartbeat: The Dead Narrator in Mike McCormack's Solar
Bones
- Neil Murphy
7. Dead Man/and Woman Talking: Narratives from Beyond the Grave
- Philippe Carrard
8. The View from Upstream: Authority and Projection in Fontenelle's
Nouveaux dialogues des morts
- Jessica Goodman
PART II Genres- Introduction
9. Big Questions: Re-Visioning and Re-Scripting Death Narratives in
Children's Literature
- Lesley D. Clement
10. In the U-Bend with Moaning Myrtle: Thinking about Death in YA
Literature
- Karen Coats
11. Death and Mourning in Graphic Narrative
- José Alaniz
12. Death and Documentaries: Heuristics for the Real in an Age of
Simulation
- Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter
13. Death and the Fanciulla
- Reed Way Dasenbrock
14. Death, Literary Form, and Affective Comprehension: Primary Emotions
and the Neurological Basis of Genre
- Ronald Schleifer
PART III Site, Space, and Spatiality
- Introduction
15. Ecocide and the Anthropocene: Death and the Environment
- Flore Coulouma
16. A Disney Death: Coco, Black Panther, and the Limits of the Afterlife
- Stacy Thompson
17. Suicide in the Early Modern Elegiac Tradition
- Kelly McGuire
18. Institutions and Elegies: Viewing the Dead in W. B. Yeats and John
Wieners
- Barry Sheils and Julie Walsh
19. Death "after Long Silence": Auditing Agamben's Metaphysics of
Negativity in Yeats's Lyric
- Samuel Caleb Wee
20. The Spatialization of Death in the Novels of Virginia Woolf
- Ian Tan
21. "Memento Mori": memory, Death, and Posterity in Singapore's Poetry
- Jen Crawford
PART IV Rituals, Memorials, and Epitaphs
- Introduction
22. Death and the Dead in Verse Funerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece
- Arianna Gullo
23. Fictional Will
- Helen Swift
24. Monumentalism, Death, and Genre in Shakespeare
- John Tangney
25. Death and Gothic Romanticism: Dilating in/upon the Graveyard,
Meditating among the Tombs
- Carol Margaret Davison
26. Death, Literature, and the Victorian Era
- Jolene Zigarovich
27. The Aura of the Phonographic Relic: Hearing the Voices of the Dead
- Angela Frattarola
28. Anecdotal Death: Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets
- Laura Davies
29. Biography: Life after Death
- Ira Nadel
PART V Living with Death: Writing, Mourning, and Consolation
- Introduction
30. "An immense expenditure of energy come to nothing": Philosophy,
Literature, and Death in Peter Weiss's Abschied von den Eltern
- Christopher Hamilton
31. Paradox, Death, and the Divine
- Jamie Lin
32. Inner Seeing and Death Anxiety in Aidan Higgins's Blind Man's Bluff
and Other Life Writing
- Lara O'Muirithe
33. Autothanatography and Contemporary Poetry
- Ivan Callus
34. When Time Stops: Death and Autobiography in Contemporary Personal
Narratives
- Rosalía Baena
35. "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
36. On the Corpse of a Loved One in the Era of Brain Death: Bioethics and
Fictions
- Catherine Belling
37. Death to the Music of Time: Reticence in Anthony Powell's Mediated
Narratives of Death
- Catherine Hoffmann
38. Death and Chinese War Television Dramas: (Re)configuring Ethical
Judgments in The Disguiser
- W. Michelle Wang
39. Where Do the Disappeared Go? Writing the Genocide in East Timor
- Kit Ying Lye
40. "Doubtfull Drede": Dying at the End of the Middle Ages
- Walter Wadiak
41. Urbanization, Ambiguity, and Social Death in Charles Brockden Brown's
Arthur Mervyn
- Wanlin Li
42. Coda
- Julian Gough