Umfang:
xx, 469 Seiten
ISBN:
9780367619053
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9780367619015
Serie:
Routledge companions to literature
Inhalt:
Traversing the ontological divide. 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 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 -- Genres. Big questions : re-visioning and re-scripting death narratives in children's literature / Lesley Clement -- In the U-bend with Moaning Myrtle : thinking about death in YA literature / Karen Coats -- Death and mourning in graphic narrative / José Alaniz --
Inhalt:
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 -- Site, Space, and Spatiality. 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 & 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 --
Inhalt:
Rituals, memorials, and epitaphs. 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 Nade -- Living with death : writing, mourning, and consolation. "An immense expenditure of energy come to nothing" : philosophy, literature, and death in Peter Weiss' 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 --
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Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-003-10704-0
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen
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