Suicide century : literature and suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace / Andrew Bennett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bennett, Andrew, 1960 December 2- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suicide in literature.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

v, 270 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Contents:

Literature and suicide

The animal that can commit suicide: history, philosophy, literature

A world without meaning: Ford Madox Ford and modernist suicide

The love that kills: love, art, and everyday suicide in James Joyce

Death death death lovely death: Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath, and the idea of suicide

What must it have been like?: suicide and empathy in contemporary fiction

Inside David Foster Wallace's head: attention, loneliness, boredom, and suicide

Epilogue: the contemporary suicide memoir.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108418041

110841804X

OCLC:

999672077