LEADER 03603nam 2200613 450 001 9910787455703321 005 20230807212507.0 010 $a1-4438-7298-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000337568 035 $a(OCoLC)901287238 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary11019541 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001558986 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16184578 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001558986 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14819731 035 $a(PQKB)10617140 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2076623 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2076623 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11019541 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL692059 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3051755 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3051755 035 $a(OCoLC)922952395 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000337568 100 $a20150218h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aDeath representations in literature $eforms and theories /$fedited by Adriana Teodorescu 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNewcastle upon Tyne, England :$cCambridge Scholars Publishing,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (447 p.) 225 1 $aDying and Death Studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-60777-X 311 $a1-4438-7158-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aIntro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- IS LITERATURE A SLAP IN THE FACEOF DEATH? -- THEORIES AND POETICS OF DEATHIN LITERATURE -- THE PARADOX OF MORTALITY -- WRITING IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH -- BRINGING DEATH TO WORDSWHEN POETIZING -- DEATH REPRESENTATION IN LITERATURE -- FROM EARLY MODERN LITERATURETO REALISM -- DEATH REPRESENTATION IN FRENCH EARLYMODERN TRAGEDIES -- "THIS SALUTARY REMEDY" -- NECRO-TRANSCENDENCE /NECRO-NATURALISM -- DEATH AND DEMOCRACYIN AMERICAN REALISM -- "THE LITTLE WORLD OF POVERTY" -- MODERN LITERATURE -- BELOVED PRESENCE, PAINFUL ABSENCE -- EXPRESSIONIST DEATH IMAGESAND THE FEMININE OTHER -- POSTMODERN AND POPULAR LITERATURE -- POSTMODERN AND POPULAR LITERATURE -- REPRESENTATIONS OF DEATH AND TOPOIIN MISHIMA YUKIO'S Y?KOKU (PATRIOTISM) -- DEATH IN JEAN ECHENOZ'S NOVELS -- THE PERPETUAL DESIRE TO PERISH -- THE BENEFITS OF DYING IN THE WORLDOF SUPERHEROES -- ONCE UPON A TIME -- VIOLENT DEATH IN PARALOGES SONGS -- INTERFERENCES AND COMPARATIVESAPPROACHES -- DEATH IS BUT THE NEXT GREAT ADVENTURE -- DEATH AS SYMPTOM IN WAGNER'S PARSIFAL -- THE MANY FACES OF DEATH IN MODESTMUSSORGSKY'S THE SONGS AND DANCESOF DEATH -- DEATH AND THE MAIDEN IN 20TH CENTURYLITERATURE AND VISUAL ARTS -- PICTURES OF DEATH ENVISIONEDBY LITERARY MEMOIRS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX. 330 $aIf the academic field of death studies is a prosperous one, there still seems to be a level of mistrust concerning the capacity of literature to provide socially relevant information about death and to help improve the anthropological understanding of how culture is shaped by the human condition of mortality. Furthermore, the relationship between literature and death tends to be trivialized, in the sense that death representations are interpreted in an over-aestheticized manner. As such, this. 410 0$aDying and Death Studies 606 $aDeath in literature 615 0$aDeath in literature. 676 $a809.933548 702 $aTeodorescu$b Adriana 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787455703321 996 $aDeath representations in literature$93738835 997 $aUNINA