死を物語る：文学の臨界 Narrating Death : The Limit of Literature (Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature)

Jernigan, Daniel (EDT)/ Wadiak, Walter (EDT)/ Wang, Michelle (EDT)

Routledge（2018/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 212 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138360365
• DDC分類 809.933548

Full 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.

Contents

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?": Molière'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