Death representations in literature : forms and theories / edited by Adriana Teodorescu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Teodorescu, Adriana, editor.

Series:

Dying and Death Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (447 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

If the academic field of death studies is a prosperous one, there still seems to be a level of mistrust concerning the capacity of literature to provide socially relevant information about death and to help improve the anthropological understanding of how culture is shaped by the human condition of mortality. Furthermore, the relationship between literature and death tends to be trivialized, in the sense that death representations are interpreted in an over-aestheticized manner. As such, this.

Contents:

Intro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

IS LITERATURE A SLAP IN THE FACEOF DEATH?

THEORIES AND POETICS OF DEATHIN LITERATURE

THE PARADOX OF MORTALITY

WRITING IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH

BRINGING DEATH TO WORDSWHEN POETIZING

DEATH REPRESENTATION IN LITERATURE

FROM EARLY MODERN LITERATURETO REALISM

DEATH REPRESENTATION IN FRENCH EARLYMODERN TRAGEDIES

"THIS SALUTARY REMEDY"

NECRO-TRANSCENDENCE /NECRO-NATURALISM

DEATH AND DEMOCRACYIN AMERICAN REALISM

"THE LITTLE WORLD OF POVERTY"

MODERN LITERATURE

BELOVED PRESENCE, PAINFUL ABSENCE

EXPRESSIONIST DEATH IMAGESAND THE FEMININE OTHER

POSTMODERN AND POPULAR LITERATURE

REPRESENTATIONS OF DEATH AND TOPOIIN MISHIMA YUKIO'S YNjKOKU (PATRIOTISM)

DEATH IN JEAN ECHENOZ'S NOVELS

THE PERPETUAL DESIRE TO PERISH

THE BENEFITS OF DYING IN THE WORLDOF SUPERHEROES

ONCE UPON A TIME

VIOLENT DEATH IN PARALOGES SONGS

INTERFERENCES AND COMPARATIVESAPPROACHES

DEATH IS BUT THE NEXT GREAT ADVENTURE

DEATH AS SYMPTOM IN WAGNER'S PARSIFAL

THE MANY FACES OF DEATH IN MODESTMUSSORGSKY'S THE SONGS AND DANCESOF DEATH

DEATH AND THE MAIDEN IN 20TH CENTURYLITERATURE AND VISUAL ARTS

PICTURES OF DEATH ENVISIONEDBY LITERARY MEMOIRS

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 18, 2015).

ISBN:

1-4438-7298-9

OCLC:

901287238