TY  - BOOK
AU  - Teodorescu,Adriana
TI  - Death Representations in Literature: Forms and Theories
T2  - Dying and Death Studies
SN  - 9781443872980
AV  - PN56.D4 -- .D438 2015eb 
U1  - 809.933548 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Newcastle-upon-Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Death in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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 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
N2  - 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
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