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The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton :
Taylor & Francis Group,
2020.
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| Colección: | Routledge Literature Companions Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Part I. Traversing the Ontological Divide
- Work Cited
- 1. The Final Frontier: Science Fictions of Death
- Motivating the Motif
- Methuselah's Children
- Ghosts in Machines
- How to Live Safely in a Science-Fictional Universe
- The Walking Dead
- The Last Man
- Virtual Reality
- Works Cited
- 2. ""Still I Danced"": Performing Death in Ford's The Broken Heart
- Notes
- Works Cited
- 3. Death and the Margins of Theater in Luigi Pirandello
- Notes
- Works Cited
- 4. Forbidden Mental Fruit? Dead Narrators and Characters from Medieval to Postmodernist Narratives
- Introduction
- Ontological Complications: Dead Character-Narratorsin Postmodernist Narratives
- Anticipations of Postmodernism: Dead Characters from the Middle Ages to Science-Fiction Narratives
- Concluding Remarks
- Notes
- Works Cited
- 5. Literature and the Afterlife
- Space: ""Radical Theming
- Time: ""The Great Mother-Gift
- Voice: ""The Result Was Cacophony
- Genre as Afterlife
- Notes
- Works Cited
- 6. The Novel as Heartbeat: The Dead Narrator in Mike McCormack's Solar Bones
- Notes
- Works Cited
- 7. Dead Man/and Woman Talking: Narratives from Beyond the Grave
- Dispositions
- Enunciations
- Perspectives
- Verisimilitude
- Conclusion(s)
- Notes
- Works Cited
- 8. The View from Upstream: Authority and Projection in Fontenelle's Nouveaux dialogues des morts
- Works Cited
- Part II. Genres
- Work Cited
- 9. Big Questions: Re-Visioning and Re-Scripting Death Narratives in Children's Literature
- Cast of Animal Characters
- Death of Pets and Elderly Family Members
- Death of Parents
- Children's Death and Grieving
- What Is Death?
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- 10. In the U-Bend with Moaning Myrtle: Thinking about Death in YA Literature
- Plotting Death
- Individuation and Childhood's End
- Awareness, Empathy, and Activism
- Death and the Posthuman
- Final Thoughts
- Note
- Works Cited
- 11. Death and Mourning in Graphic Narrative
- Works Cited
- 12. Death and Documentaries: Heuristics for the Real in an Age of Simulation
- Basics of Documentary
- Distinguishing Reality from Irreality
- Contemplating Responses to Mortality
- Memento Mori, Memento Vivere
- Analyzing Death in Documentaries
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- 13. Death and the Fanciulla
- Notes
- Works Cited
- 14. Death, Literary Form, and Affective Comprehension: Primary Emotions and the Neurological Basis of Genre
- Genre as Etiquette, Language, and a Natural Fact
- Genre as Etiquette
- Narrative Genres as a Fact of Language
- Genre as ""Something like a Natural Organism
- The Affective Comprehension of Genre
- Facing Death in Narrative Genres
- Fearful Irony