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Introduction

PART I Traversing the Ontological Divide
-- Introduction

  1. The Final Frontier: Science Fictions of Death

    2. - Brian McHale

  2. "Still I Danced": Performing Death in Ford's The Broken Heart

    3. - Donovan Sherman

  3. Death and the Margins of Theatre in Luigi Pirandello

    4. - Daniel K. Jernigan

  4. Forbidden Mental Fruit? Dead Narrators and Characters from Medieval to Postmodernist Narratives

    5. - Jan Alber

  5. Literature and the Afterlife

    6. - Alice Bennett

  6. The Novel as Heartbeat: The Dead Narrator in Mike McCormack's Solar Bones

    7. - Neil Murphy

  7. Dead Man/and Woman Talking: Narratives from Beyond the Grave

    8. - Philippe Carrard

  8. The View from Upstream: Authority and Projection in Fontenelle's Nouveaux dialogues des morts

    9. - Jessica Goodman

    PART II Genres
    - Introduction

  9. Big Questions: Re-Visioning and Re-Scripting Death Narratives in Children's Literature

    10. - Lesley D. Clement

  10. In the U-Bend with Moaning Myrtle: Thinking about Death in YA Literature

    11. - Karen Coats

  11. Death and Mourning in Graphic Narrative

    12. - José Alaniz

  12. Death and Documentaries: Heuristics for the Real in an Age of Simulation

    13. - Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter

  13. Death and the Fanciulla

    14. - Reed Way Dasenbrock

  14. Death, Literary Form, and Affective Comprehension: Primary Emotions and the Neurological Basis of Genre

    15. - Ronald Schleifer

    PART III Site, Space, and Spatiality
    - Introduction

  15. Ecocide and the Anthropocene: Death and the Environment

    16. - Flore Coulouma

  16. A Disney Death: Coco, Black Panther, and the Limits of the Afterlife

    17. - Stacy Thompson

  17. Suicide in the Early Modern Elegiac Tradition

    18. - Kelly McGuire

  18. Institutions and Elegies: Viewing the Dead in W. B. Yeats and John Wieners

    19. - Barry Sheils and Julie Walsh

  19. Death "after Long Silence": Auditing Agamben's Metaphysics of Negativity in Yeats's Lyric

    20. - Samuel Caleb Wee

  20. The Spatialization of Death in the Novels of Virginia Woolf

    21. - Ian Tan

  21. "Memento Mori": memory, Death, and Posterity in Singapore's Poetry

    22. - Jen Crawford

    PART IV Rituals, Memorials, and Epitaphs
    - Introduction

  22. Death and the Dead in Verse Funerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece

    23. - Arianna Gullo

  23. Fictional Will

    24. - Helen Swift

  24. Monumentalism, Death, and Genre in Shakespeare

    25. - John Tangney

  25. Death and Gothic Romanticism: Dilating in/upon the Graveyard, Meditating among the Tombs

    26. - Carol Margaret Davison

  26. Death, Literature, and the Victorian Era

    27. - Jolene Zigarovich

  27. The Aura of the Phonographic Relic: Hearing the Voices of the Dead

    28. - Angela Frattarola

  28. Anecdotal Death: Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets

    29. - Laura Davies

  29. Biography: Life after Death

    30. - Ira Nadel

    PART V Living with Death: Writing, Mourning, and Consolation
    - Introduction

  30. "An immense expenditure of energy come to nothing": Philosophy, Literature, and Death in Peter Weiss's Abschied von den Eltern

    31. - Christopher Hamilton

  31. Paradox, Death, and the Divine

    32. - Jamie Lin

  32. Inner Seeing and Death Anxiety in Aidan Higgins's Blind Man's Bluff and Other Life Writing

    33. - Lara O'Muirithe

  33. Autothanatography and Contemporary Poetry

    34. - Ivan Callus

  34. When Time Stops: Death and Autobiography in Contemporary Personal Narratives

    35. - Rosalía Baena

  35. "Grief made her insubstantial to herself": Illness, Aging, and Death in A. S. Byatt's Little Black Book of Stories

    36. - Graham Matthews

    PART VI Historical Engagements
    - Introduction

  36. On the Corpse of a Loved One in the Era of Brain Death: Bioethics and Fictions

    37. - Catherine Belling

  37. Death to the Music of Time: Reticence in Anthony Powell's Mediated Narratives of Death

    38. - Catherine Hoffmann

  38. Death and Chinese War Television Dramas: (Re)configuring Ethical Judgments in The Disguiser

    39. - W. Michelle Wang

  39. Where Do the Disappeared Go? Writing the Genocide in East Timor

    40. - Kit Ying Lye

  40. "Doubtfull Drede": Dying at the End of the Middle Ages

    41. - Walter Wadiak

  41. Urbanization, Ambiguity, and Social Death in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn

-- Wanlin Li

42. Coda

-- Julian Gough



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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Death in literature.
Death in art.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying
LITERARY CRITICISM / General

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