The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part I. Traversing the Ontological Divide -- Work Cited -- 1. The Final Frontier: Science Fictions of Death -- Motivating the Motif -- Methuselah's Children -- Ghosts in Machines -- How to Live Safely in a Science-Fictional Universe -- The Walking Dead -- The Last Man -- Virtual Reality -- Works Cited -- 2. "Still I Danced": Performing Death in Ford's The Broken Heart -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 3. Death and the Margins of Theater in Luigi Pirandello -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 4. Forbidden Mental Fruit? Dead Narrators and Characters from Medieval to Postmodernist Narratives -- Introduction -- Ontological Complications: Dead Character-Narratorsin Postmodernist Narratives -- Anticipations of Postmodernism: Dead Characters from the Middle Ages to Science-Fiction Narratives -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 5. Literature and the Afterlife -- Space: "Radical Theming -- Time: "The Great Mother-Gift -- Voice: "The Result Was Cacophony -- Genre as Afterlife -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 6. The Novel as Heartbeat: The Dead Narrator in Mike McCormack's Solar Bones -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 7. Dead Man/and Woman Talking: Narratives from Beyond the Grave -- Dispositions -- Enunciations -- Perspectives -- Verisimilitude -- Conclusion(s) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 8. The View from Upstream: Authority and Projection in Fontenelle's Nouveaux dialogues des morts -- Works Cited -- Part II. Genres -- Work Cited -- 9. Big Questions: Re-Visioning and Re-Scripting Death Narratives in Children's Literature -- Cast of Animal Characters -- Death of Pets and Elderly Family Members -- Death of Parents -- Children's Death and Grieving -- What Is Death? -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Primary Sources.

Secondary Sources -- 10. In the U-Bend with Moaning Myrtle: Thinking about Death in YA Literature -- Plotting Death -- Individuation and Childhood's End -- Awareness, Empathy, and Activism -- Death and the Posthuman -- Final Thoughts -- Note -- Works Cited -- 11. Death and Mourning in Graphic Narrative -- Works Cited -- 12. Death and Documentaries: Heuristics for the Real in an Age of Simulation -- Basics of Documentary -- Distinguishing Reality from Irreality -- Contemplating Responses to Mortality -- Memento Mori, Memento Vivere -- Analyzing Death in Documentaries -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- 13. Death and the Fanciulla -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 14. Death, Literary Form, and Affective Comprehension: Primary Emotions and the Neurological Basis of Genre -- Genre as Etiquette, Language, and a Natural Fact -- Genre as Etiquette -- Narrative Genres as a Fact of Language -- Genre as "Something like a Natural Organism -- The Affective Comprehension of Genre -- Facing Death in Narrative Genres -- Fearful Irony -- Blunt Melodrama -- Blank Tragedy -- Conclusion: Death and Literary Genre -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part III. Site, Space, and Spatiality -- Works Cited -- 15. Ecocide and the Anthropocene: Death and the Environment -- Call of the Wild: Death, Mountain, and Forest Spirits in the Japanese Imagination -- Connemara: Stories of Life and Death -- The Indian Reservation: Narratives of Loss, Ecocide, and Genocide -- Ecological Disasters and the Nuclear Apocalypse -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 16. A Disney Death: Coco, Black Panther, and the Limits of the Afterlife -- Psychoanalysis, or, To Death and Beyond! -- From Psychoanalysis to the Movies -- What Is the Purpose of Your Visit? -- Works Cited -- 17. Suicide in the Early Modern Elegiac Tradition -- Notes -- Works Cited.

18. Institutions and Elegies: Viewing the Dead in W. B. Yeats and John Wieners -- The Visual Space of Modern Elegy -- Vitality through Death -- The Municipal Gallery Revisited" (1937) -- The Hotel Wentley Poems (1958) -- The Art of Cruising Art -- A Poem for Museum Goers -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 19. Death "after Long Silence": Auditing Agamben's Metaphysics of Negativity in Yeats's Lyric -- Note -- Works Cited -- 20. The Spatialization of Death in the Novels of Virginia Woolf -- Introduction -- Epiphany as Dissolution: The Voyage Out and The Ship of Death -- After Such Knowledge, What Consolation?: Order and the Limits of Vision in To the Lighthouse -- Resting Securely in Impermanence: The Waves as Final Statement -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 21. "Memento Mori": Memory, Death, and Posterity in Singapore's Poetry -- Modernization, Death, and Poetic Strategy -- Grief and the Virtualization of Attachment -- Edwin Thumboo and the Crafting of Posterity -- Boey Kim Cheng and Elegiac Distance -- Yeow Kai Chai and Teeming Presence -- Works Cited -- Part IV. Rituals, Memorials, and Epitaphs -- Works Cited -- 22. Death and the Dead in Verse Funerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 23. Fictional Will -- A Matter of Life and Death: Writing on the Brink -- Writing in Earnest: An Urgent Cause -- Making Disposition: An Exercise of Will -- Testis: A Need for Witness -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- 24. Monumentalism, Death, and Genre in Shakespeare -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 25. Death and Gothic Romanticism: Dilating in/upon the Graveyard, Meditating among the Tombs -- Works Cited -- 26. Death, Literature, and the Victorian Era -- The Cult of Mourning and the Commodification of Death -- Materiality, Relics, and the Body -- Sex and Death -- Victorian Gothic -- Last Words -- Notes -- Works Cited.

27. The Aura of the Phonographic Relic: Hearing the Voices of the Dead -- The Aura of the Recorded Voice -- The Phonographic Recording and the Séance -- The Phonograph Recording as Part of a Well-Managed Death -- Note -- Works Cited -- 28. Anecdotal Death: Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets -- This Last Act -- The Texture of a Discourse -- Ridiculous Anecdotes -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 29. Biography: Life after Death -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part V. Living with Death: Writing, Mourning, and Consolation -- Work Cited -- 30. "An immense expenditure of energy come to nothing": Philosophy, Literature, and Death in Peter Weiss's Abschied von den Eltern -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 31. Paradox, Death, and the Divine -- Death and Agency -- Death and Meaning -- The Numinous Heart of Paradox -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 32. Inner Seeing and Death Anxiety in Aidan Higgins's Blind Man's Bluff and Other Life Writing -- Introduction -- Visual Images -- Inner Vision and Familiar Forms -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- 33. Autothanatography and Contemporary Poetry -- Works Cited -- 34. When Time Stops: Death and Autobiography in Contemporary Personal Narratives -- Note -- Works Cited -- 35. "Grief made her insubstantial to herself": Illness, Aging, and Death in A. S. Byatt's Little Black Book of Stories -- Introduction -- Postmemory, Grief, and Death -- Aging, Illness, and Death -- Dementia Narratives and Grief before Death -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- PART VI. Historical Engagements -- Works Cited -- 36. On the Corpse of a Loved One in the Era of Brain Death: Bioethics and Fictions -- Two Kinds of Dead -- Irreversibility -- Fictions -- Works Cited -- 37. Death to the Music of Time Reticence in Anthony Powell's Mediated Narratives of Death -- Introduction: Narration by Proxy - Anthony Powell's Corpseless Danse Macabre.

Dramatization, Suspense, and Tragic Irony -- The Unnamable -- Pilgrim's Progress -- Conclusion: "Lack of Outward Display" or the Affecting Power of Narrative under Control -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 38. Death and Chinese War Television Dramas: (Re)configuring Ethical Judgments in The Disguiser -- Contextual Frames -- Of Mortal Economies and Ethical Hierarchies -- Final Remarks -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 39. Where Do the Disappeared Go? Writing the Genocide in East Timor -- Understanding the Santa Cruz Massacre in Dili -- The Silence Surrounding the Event -- Implications of Silence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 40. "Doubtfull Drede" Dying at the End of the Middle Ages -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 41. Urbanization, Ambiguity, and Social Death in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 42. Coda -- Index.

This Collection seeks to understand how literature always been deeply engaged with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise.

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