Death representations in literature : forms and theories / / edited by Adriana Teodorescu

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015; ©2015
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (447 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.933548
• Soggetto topico: Death in literature
• Persona (resp. second.): TeodorescuAdriana
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- 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 YNjKOKU (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.
• Sommario/riassunto: If 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Death representations in literature
• ISBN: 1-4438-7298-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787455703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Dying and Death Studies