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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.
Contents
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
- José 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
- Rosalía 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
