Introduction

PART I Traversing the Ontological Divide
-- Introduction

1. The Final Frontier: Science Fictions of Death

- Brian McHale

2. "Still I Danced": Performing Death in Ford's The Broken Heart

- Donovan Sherman

3. Death and the Margins of Theatre in Luigi Pirandello

- Daniel K. Jernigan

4. Forbidden Mental Fruit? Dead Narrators and Characters from Medieval to Postmodernist Narratives

- Jan Alber

5. Literature and the Afterlife

- Alice Bennett

6. The Novel as Heartbeat: The Dead Narrator in Mike McCormack's Solar Bones

- Neil Murphy

7. Dead Man/and Woman Talking: Narratives from Beyond the Grave

- Philippe Carrard

8. The View from Upstream: Authority and Projection in Fontenelle's Nouveaux dialogues des morts

- Jessica Goodman

PART II Genres
- Introduction

9. Big Questions: Re-Visioning and Re-Scripting Death Narratives in Children's Literature

- Lesley D. Clement

10. In the U-Bend with Moaning Myrtle: Thinking about Death in YA Literature

- Karen Coats

11. Death and Mourning in Graphic Narrative

- José Alaniz

12. Death and Documentaries: Heuristics for the Real in an Age of Simulation

- Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter

13. Death and the Fanciulla

- Reed Way Dasenbrock

14. Death, Literary Form, and Affective Comprehension: Primary Emotions and the Neurological Basis of Genre

- Ronald Schleifer

PART III Site, Space, and Spatiality
- Introduction

15. Ecocide and the Anthropocene: Death and the Environment

- Flore Coulouma

16. A Disney Death: Coco, Black Panther, and the Limits of the Afterlife

- Stacy Thompson

17. Suicide in the Early Modern Elegiac Tradition

- Kelly McGuire

18. Institutions and Elegies: Viewing the Dead in W. B. Yeats and John Wieners

- Barry Sheils and Julie Walsh

19. Death "after Long Silence": Auditing Agamben's Metaphysics of Negativity in Yeats's Lyric

- Samuel Caleb Wee

20. The Spatialization of Death in the Novels of Virginia Woolf

- Ian Tan

21. "Memento Mori": memory, Death, and Posterity in Singapore's Poetry

- Jen Crawford

PART IV Rituals, Memorials, and Epitaphs
- Introduction

22. Death and the Dead in Verse Funerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece

- Arianna Gullo

23. Fictional Will

- Helen Swift

24. Monumentalism, Death, and Genre in Shakespeare

- John Tangney

25. Death and Gothic Romanticism: Dilating in/upon the Graveyard, Meditating among the Tombs

- Carol Margaret Davison

26. Death, Literature, and the Victorian Era

- Jolene Zigarovich

27. The Aura of the Phonographic Relic: Hearing the Voices of the Dead

- Angela Frattarola

28. Anecdotal Death: Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets

- Laura Davies

29. Biography: Life after Death

- Ira Nadel

PART V Living with Death: Writing, Mourning, and Consolation
- Introduction

30. "An immense expenditure of energy come to nothing": Philosophy, Literature, and Death in Peter Weiss's Abschied von den Eltern

- Christopher Hamilton

31. Paradox, Death, and the Divine

- Jamie Lin

32. Inner Seeing and Death Anxiety in Aidan Higgins's Blind Man's Bluff and Other Life Writing

- Lara O'Muirithe

33. Autothanatography and Contemporary Poetry

- Ivan Callus

34. When Time Stops: Death and Autobiography in Contemporary Personal Narratives

- Rosalía Baena

35. "Grief made her insubstantial to herself": Illness, Aging, and Death in A. S. Byatt's Little Black Book of Stories

- Graham Matthews

PART VI Historical Engagements
- Introduction

36. On the Corpse of a Loved One in the Era of Brain Death: Bioethics and Fictions

- Catherine Belling

37. Death to the Music of Time: Reticence in Anthony Powell's Mediated Narratives of Death

- Catherine Hoffmann

38. Death and Chinese War Television Dramas: (Re)configuring Ethical Judgments in The Disguiser

- W. Michelle Wang

39. Where Do the Disappeared Go? Writing the Genocide in East Timor

- Kit Ying Lye

40. "Doubtfull Drede": Dying at the End of the Middle Ages

- Walter Wadiak

41. Urbanization, Ambiguity, and Social Death in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn

-- Wanlin Li

42. Coda

-- Julian Gough

Introduction

PART I Traversing the Ontological Divide
-- Introduction

1. The Final Frontier: Science Fictions of Death

- Brian McHale

2. "Still I Danced": Performing Death in Ford's The Broken Heart

- Donovan Sherman

3. Death and the Margins of Theatre in Luigi Pirandello

- Daniel K. Jernigan

4. Forbidden Mental Fruit? Dead Narrators and Characters from Medieval to Postmodernist Narratives

- Jan Alber

5. Literature and the Afterlife

- Alice Bennett

6. The Novel as Heartbeat: The Dead Narrator in Mike McCormack's Solar Bones

- Neil Murphy

7. Dead Man/and Woman Talking: Narratives from Beyond the Grave

- Philippe Carrard

8. The View from Upstream: Authority and Projection in Fontenelle's Nouveaux dialogues des morts

- Jessica Goodman

PART II Genres
- Introduction

9. Big Questions: Re-Visioning and Re-Scripting Death Narratives in Children's Literature

- Lesley D. Clement

10. In the U-Bend with Moaning Myrtle: Thinking about Death in YA Literature

- Karen Coats

11. Death and Mourning in Graphic Narrative

- José Alaniz

12. Death and Documentaries: Heuristics for the Real in an Age of Simulation

- Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter

13. Death and the Fanciulla

- Reed Way Dasenbrock

14. Death, Literary Form, and Affective Comprehension: Primary Emotions and the Neurological Basis of Genre

- Ronald Schleifer

PART III Site, Space, and Spatiality
- Introduction

15. Ecocide and the Anthropocene: Death and the Environment

- Flore Coulouma

16. A Disney Death: Coco, Black Panther, and the Limits of the Afterlife

- Stacy Thompson

17. Suicide in the Early Modern Elegiac Tradition

- Kelly McGuire

18. Institutions and Elegies: Viewing the Dead in W. B. Yeats and John Wieners

- Barry Sheils and Julie Walsh

19. Death "after Long Silence": Auditing Agamben's Metaphysics of Negativity in Yeats's Lyric

- Samuel Caleb Wee

20. The Spatialization of Death in the Novels of Virginia Woolf

- Ian Tan

21. "Memento Mori": memory, Death, and Posterity in Singapore's Poetry

- Jen Crawford

PART IV Rituals, Memorials, and Epitaphs
- Introduction

22. Death and the Dead in Verse Funerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece

- Arianna Gullo

23. Fictional Will

- Helen Swift

24. Monumentalism, Death, and Genre in Shakespeare

- John Tangney

25. Death and Gothic Romanticism: Dilating in/upon the Graveyard, Meditating among the Tombs

- Carol Margaret Davison

26. Death, Literature, and the Victorian Era

- Jolene Zigarovich

27. The Aura of the Phonographic Relic: Hearing the Voices of the Dead

- Angela Frattarola

28. Anecdotal Death: Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets

- Laura Davies

29. Biography: Life after Death

- Ira Nadel

PART V Living with Death: Writing, Mourning, and Consolation
- Introduction

30. "An immense expenditure of energy come to nothing": Philosophy, Literature, and Death in Peter Weiss's Abschied von den Eltern

- Christopher Hamilton

31. Paradox, Death, and the Divine

- Jamie Lin

32. Inner Seeing and Death Anxiety in Aidan Higgins's Blind Man's Bluff and Other Life Writing

- Lara O'Muirithe

33. Autothanatography and Contemporary Poetry

- Ivan Callus

34. When Time Stops: Death and Autobiography in Contemporary Personal Narratives

- Rosalía Baena

35. "Grief made her insubstantial to herself": Illness, Aging, and Death in A. S. Byatt's Little Black Book of Stories

- Graham Matthews

PART VI Historical Engagements
- Introduction

36. On the Corpse of a Loved One in the Era of Brain Death: Bioethics and Fictions

- Catherine Belling

37. Death to the Music of Time: Reticence in Anthony Powell's Mediated Narratives of Death

- Catherine Hoffmann

38. Death and Chinese War Television Dramas: (Re)configuring Ethical Judgments in The Disguiser

- W. Michelle Wang

39. Where Do the Disappeared Go? Writing the Genocide in East Timor

- Kit Ying Lye

40. "Doubtfull Drede": Dying at the End of the Middle Ages

- Walter Wadiak

41. Urbanization, Ambiguity, and Social Death in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn

-- Wanlin Li

42. Coda

-- Julian Gough