| Description |
1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; PART I: The Uncrossable Border; 1 Photography and First-Person Death: Derrida, Barthes, Poe; 2 "This memory all men may have in mynd": Everyman and the Work of Mourning; 3 From Nothing to Never: Facing Death in King Lear; 4 "Is there no danger in counterfeiting death?": Molière's The Imaginary Invalid; 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 |
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6 Talking to the Dead: Narrative Closure and the Political Unconscious in Neil Jordan's Fiction7 Samuel Johnson and the Grammar of Death; 8 Death and Romance in Sir Orfeo; PART III: Aesthetic Crossings; 9 Death and the Maidens: John Banville's Ekphrastic Storyworlds; 10 Blood Meridian, the Sublime, and Aesthetic Narrativizations of Death; 11 Murder Amidst the Chocolates: Martin McDonagh's Multifaceted Uses of Death in In Bruges; 12 The Ruined Voice in Tom Murphy's Bailegangaire; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Jernigan, Daniel K.
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Wadiak, Walter, 1977-
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Wang, W. Michelle.
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| ISBN |
9780429755682 |
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0429755686 |
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