1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990007363190403321

Autore

Welwei, Karl-Wilhelm <1930- >

Titolo

Polis und Arché : kleine Schriften zu Gesellschafts- und Herrschaftsstrukturen in der griechischen Welt / Karl-Wilhelm Welwei ; Hrsg. von Mischa Meier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart, : Steiner, 2000

ISBN

3-515-07759-6

Descrizione fisica

427 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Historia , Einzelschriften ; 146

Disciplina

905

Locazione

FGBC

Collocazione

XXI A 710 (146)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996517757403316

Autore

Castelli Stella

Titolo

Death is Served : The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media / / Stella Castelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

3-8394-6569-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Collana

American Culture Studies ; ; 40

Soggetti

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Paradoxical Nature of Death in America -- 1. The Text Devouring the Dead: Edgar Allan Poe and David Lynch's American Gothic -- 2. I am Dead, Yet I Live - The Zombie's Gluttonous Craving for the Living -- 3. Producing the Corpse: Quentin Tarantino's Revenge Narratives -- 4. Ingesting the Corpse: The Cannibal's Taste for Death - American Psycho and Hannibal -- 5. Creator/Destroyer: The Serial Killer as an American Phenomenon -- Conclusion: Death. Again -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations

Sommario/riassunto

The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. Stella Castelli shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from language's inability to satisfactorily grasp death. Taking an intermedial approach, she investigates the forms and tropes born from this preoccupation with death and conceptualizes its imagination alongside an appetite which manifests as repetitive encoding. These metaphors of food consumption provide a hermeneutic framing for analyzing representations of death across American literature and media.