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Death in literature /

Death is an inevitable, yet mysterious event. Fiction is one way to imagine and gain knowledge of death. Death is very useful to literature, as it creates plot twists, suspense, mysteries, and emotional effects in narrations. But more importantly, stories about death seem to have an existential impo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hakola, Outi (Editor ), Kivistö, Sari (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
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505 0 |a TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; I; WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES; DEATH, TEMPORALITY AND GENDER IN NOVELSBASED ON LIFE STORIES OF MARILYN MONROEAND BILLY TIPTON; BIOFICTION AS 'THANATOGRAPHY'; THE TEXT AS CADAVER; THE PYRAMIDS OF POETSOR ON POETIC (IM)MORTALITY; II; POSTMODERN GHOSTSAND THE POLITICS OF INVISIBLE LIFE; HEMINGWAY'S AGED CHARACTERSAS SYMBOLS OF DEATH; "DAMN DEATH. LONG LIVE LIFE!"DEATH IN ULYSSES; LOVE AND DEATH IN FICINO'S DE AMORE; III; ANIMATED SKELETONS AND OPEN COFFINS; "EVERY DISASTER MADE US WISH FOR MORE"; THE PARADOXICAL FIGURE OF THE FALLING MAN; IV. 
505 8 |a SELF-KILLING AS A CURE TO DISEASEREPRESENTING LIFE'S END IN DANCING WITHMISTER D; NOT WITH A BANG, NEITHER WITH A WHIMPER; V; DEATH AND IMMORTALITY IN FRED VARGAS'SCRIME FICTION; DEATH IN SUPERHERO COMIC BOOKS; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX. 
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