Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 244 Seiten)
Edition:
1st, New ed
ISBN:
9781453915530
Series Statement:
Studies on themes and motifs in literature vol. 124
Content:
Since ancient times, writers and poets have grappled with death, dying, grief, and mourning in their works. The Final Crossing: Death and Dying in Literature compiles fifteen in-depth, scholarly, and original essays on death and dying in literature from around the globe and from different time periods. Written from a variety of critical perspectives, the essays target both scholars and serious students. Death and dying is an important area of study for a variety of disciplines, including psychology, psychiatry, sociology, gerontology, medical ethics, healthcare science, health law, and literary studies. The Final Crossing is a landmark compendium of academic essays on death and dying in literary texts, such as the Iliad, ?ayy ibn Yaq?an, Hamlet, The Secret Garden, and The Grapes of Wrath. This collection of essays not only brings an international flavor, but also a unique angularity to the discourse on thanatology. The novelty of perspectives reflects the diverse cultural and intellectual backgrounds of the contributors. This diversity opens up a fresh conversation on a number of age-old questions related to «the final crossing.» In this volume, readers will find an intriguing array of topics for further reflection and research
Content:
Contents: Carol Leff: Gravesites in the Stories of Herman Charles Bosman: An Exploration of History, Memory, Ritual, Identity, and Landscape – Colin Yeo: «Mouthed Graves Will Give Thee Memory»: Burial Sites and Poetic Immortality in Renaissance Verse – Marwan A. Nader/Myrna A. Nader: Christian and Muslim Concepts of Death and the Afterlife in Postmodern Agnostic Poetry – Heather H. Yeung: The End of Language? Representations and Effects of Death and Dying in the Fiction of Julia Kristeva and Susan Sontag – Daniela Chana: Death as an Instrument for Social Criticism in Young Italian Literature – John Pennington: The Secret Garden at the Back of the North Wind: The Life and Death Journey in Frances Hodgson Burnett and George MacDonald – Rebekah M. Fowler: How Men Grieve: A Contemporary Allegory of the Grieving Process in Sir Orfeo – Carolyn Ownbey: Haunting and Melancholia: A Reading of the Revenant in Seamus Heaney’s «Casualty» – Kelly Leavitt: Those Left Behind: The Non-Endings of Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man and Aharon Appelfeld’s The Immortal Bartfuss – Hannah Farrell: In The Driver’s Seat: Death and Isolation in Muriel Spark’s Postmodern Gothic – Claudia Desblaches: Death and Dying as Literary Devices in Brite’s Exquisite Corpse and Palahniuk’s Damned – Lori F. Smurthwaite: «Stories Can Save Us»: Rewriting Death in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried – James Brown: Tears and the Art of – John J. Han: Quick and Long-Lasting: Death and Dying in John Steinbeck’s Fiction – Debra L. Cumberland: Death-Defying Women: Art and Transcendence in Cather
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781433130151
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781433130151
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als ISBN 9781433130151
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3726/978-1-4539-1553-0
URL:
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Author information:
Han, John J.
