Narrating death : the limit of literature
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Narrating death : the limit of literature
（Routledge studies in comparative literature）
Routledge, 2020, c2019
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Description
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.
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List of Contributors
Introduction
DANIEL K. JERNIGAN, WALTER WADIAK, and W. MICHELLE WANG
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?": Moliere'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 Crossings
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
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