LEADER 04098oam 22005534a 450 001 9910140445203321 005 20210915045937.0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000557910 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001669445 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16459986 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001669445 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15003870 035 $a(PQKB)10913546 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00057001 035 $a(OCoLC)1176455003 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse87105 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000557910 100 $a20200721e20202012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Death of Conrad Unger: Some Conjectures Regarding Parasitosis and Associated Suicide Behavior$fGary J. Shipley 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2020 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (35 pages) $cillustrations; digital, PDF file(s) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$aPrint version: 0615600301 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aParasitoidal possession -- Four literary felos de se : Nerval, Wallace, Quin, and Woolf -- Conrad Unger : snapshots of a suicide -- Conrad Unger : excerpts and synopses -- Conrad Unger : selected underscorings and marginalia. 330 $aThe death by suicide of Gary J Shipley's close friend, Conrad Unger (writer, theorist and amateur entomologist), has prompted him to confront not only the cold machinery of self-erasure, but also its connections to the literary life and notions surrounding psychological bewitchment, to revaluate in both fictional and entomological terms just what it is that drives writers like Unger to take their own lives as a matter of course, as if that end had been there all along, knowing, waiting. Like Gerard de Nerval, David Foster Wallace, Ann Quin and Virginia Woolf before him, Unger was not merely a writer who chose to end his life, but a writer whose work appeared forged from the knowledge of that event's temporary postponement. And while to the uninitiated these literary suicides would most likely appear completely unrelated to the suicide behaviors of insects parasitized by entomopathogenic fungi or nematomorpha, within the pages of this short study we are frequently presented with details that allow us to see the parallels between their terminal choreographies. He investigates what he believes are the essentially binary and contradictory motivations of his suicide case studies: where their self-dispatch becomes an instance of necro-autonomy (death as solution to an external thraldom, or the zombification of everyday life as something requiring the most extreme form of emancipation), while in addition being an instance of necro-equipoise (death as solution to an internal thraldom, or the anguish of no longer being able to slip back comfortably inside that very everydayness). The deadening claustrophobia of human life and achieving a stance outside of it: both barbs on the lines that can only ever detail the sickness, never cure it. Through extracts and synopses of Unger's books, marginalia and underscorings selected from his extensive library, and a brief itinerary of his movements in that last month of exile, a picture of the writer's suicidal obsession begins to form, and it forms at the expense of the man, the idea eating through his brain like a fungal parasite, disinterring the waking corpse to flesh its words. 606 $aInsects$xParasites 606 $aInsects$xBehavior 606 $aAuthors$xDeath 606 $aAuthors$xSuicidal behavior 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aInsects$xParasites. 615 0$aInsects$xBehavior. 615 0$aAuthors$xDeath. 615 0$aAuthors$xSuicidal behavior. 700 $aShipley$b Gary J.$0802547 712 02$aProject Muse, 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910140445203321 996 $aThe death of Conrad Unger$92275228 997 $aUNINA