The Routledge companion to death and literature

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The Routledge companion to death and literature

edited by W. Michelle Wang, Daniel K. Jernigan, and Neil Murphy

（Routledge companions to literature series）（Routledge companions）

Routledge, 2021

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The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale, Catherine Belling, Ronald Schleifer, Helen Swift, and Ira Nadel, as well as the work of a generation of younger scholars from around the globe, who bring valuable transnational insights. Encompassing a diverse range of mediums and genres - including biography and autobiography, documentary, drama, elegy, film, the novel and graphic novel, opera, picturebooks, poetry, television, and more - the contributors offer a dynamic mix of approaches that range from expansive perspectives on particular periods and genres to extended analyses of select case studies. Essays are included from every major Western period, including Classical, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and so on, right up to the contemporary. This collection provides a telling demonstration of the myriad ways that humanity has learned to live with the inevitability of death, where "live with" itself might mean any number of things: from consoling, to memorializing, to rationalizing, to fending off, to evading, and, perhaps most compellingly of all, to escaping. Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world, this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars working in the fields of medical humanities, thanatography (death studies), life writing, Victorian studies, modernist studies, narrative, contemporary fiction, popular culture, and more.

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Introduction PART I Traversing the Ontological Divide - Introduction The Final Frontier: Science Fictions of Death - Brian McHale "Still I Danced": Performing Death in Ford's The Broken Heart - Donovan Sherman Death and the Margins of Theatre in Luigi Pirandello - Daniel K. Jernigan Forbidden Mental Fruit? Dead Narrators and Characters from Medieval to Postmodernist Narratives - Jan Alber Literature and the Afterlife - Alice Bennett The Novel as Heartbeat: The Dead Narrator in Mike McCormack's Solar Bones - Neil Murphy Dead Man/and Woman Talking: Narratives from Beyond the Grave - Philippe Carrard The View from Upstream: Authority and Projection in Fontenelle's Nouveaux dialogues des morts - Jessica Goodman PART II Genres- Introduction Big Questions: Re-Visioning and Re-Scripting Death Narratives in Children's Literature - Lesley D. Clement In the U-Bend with Moaning Myrtle: Thinking about Death in YA Literature - Karen Coats Death and Mourning in Graphic Narrative - Jose Alaniz Death and Documentaries: Heuristics for the Real in an Age of Simulation - Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter Death and the Fanciulla - Reed Way Dasenbrock Death, Literary Form, and Affective Comprehension: Primary Emotions and the Neurological Basis of Genre - Ronald Schleifer PART III Site, Space, and Spatiality - Introduction Ecocide and the Anthropocene: Death and the Environment - Flore Coulouma A Disney Death: Coco, Black Panther, and the Limits of the Afterlife - Stacy Thompson Suicide in the Early Modern Elegiac Tradition - Kelly McGuire Institutions and Elegies: Viewing the Dead in W. B. Yeats and John Wieners - Barry Sheils and Julie Walsh Death "after Long Silence": Auditing Agamben's Metaphysics of Negativity in Yeats's Lyric - Samuel Caleb Wee The Spatialization of Death in the Novels of Virginia Woolf - Ian Tan "Memento Mori": memory, Death, and Posterity in Singapore's Poetry - Jen Crawford PART IV Rituals, Memorials, and Epitaphs - Introduction Death and the Dead in Verse Funerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece - Arianna Gullo Fictional Will - Helen Swift Monumentalism, Death, and Genre in Shakespeare - John Tangney Death and Gothic Romanticism: Dilating in/upon the Graveyard, Meditating among the Tombs - Carol Margaret Davison Death, Literature, and the Victorian Era - Jolene Zigarovich The Aura of the Phonographic Relic: Hearing the Voices of the Dead - Angela Frattarola Anecdotal Death: Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets - Laura Davies Biography: Life after Death - Ira Nadel PART V Living with Death: Writing, Mourning, and Consolation - Introduction "An immense expenditure of energy come to nothing": Philosophy, Literature, and Death in Peter Weiss's Abschied von den Eltern - Christopher Hamilton Paradox, Death, and the Divine - Jamie Lin Inner Seeing and Death Anxiety in Aidan Higgins's Blind Man's Bluff and Other Life Writing - Lara O'Muirithe Autothanatography and Contemporary Poetry - Ivan Callus When Time Stops: Death and Autobiography in Contemporary Personal Narratives - Rosalia Baena "Grief made her insubstantial to herself": Illness, Aging, and Death in A. S. Byatt's Little Black Book of Stories - Graham Matthews PART VI Historical Engagements - Introduction On the Corpse of a Loved One in the Era of Brain Death: Bioethics and Fictions - Catherine Belling Death to the Music of Time: Reticence in Anthony Powell's Mediated Narratives of Death - Catherine Hoffmann Death and Chinese War Television Dramas: (Re)configuring Ethical Judgments in The Disguiser - W. Michelle Wang Where Do the Disappeared Go? Writing the Genocide in East Timor - Kit Ying Lye "Doubtfull Drede": Dying at the End of the Middle Ages - Walter Wadiak Urbanization, Ambiguity, and Social Death in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn - Wanlin Li 42. Coda - Julian Gough

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