UID:
almahu_9949384041602882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 211 pages)
ISBN:
9780429755675
,
0429755678
,
0429755686
,
9780429755668
,
042975566X
,
9780429424663
,
0429424663
,
9780429755682
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in comparative literature ; 6
Content:
Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives try to push the boundaries of what can be said about death.
Note:
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 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
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781138360365
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429424663
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429424663
