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Death is a subject of increasing interest in virtually all academic disciplines, yet there is surprisingly little theoretical work on the representation of death in literary contexts. ""Death and Representation"" offers a collection of international and interdisciplinary essays, rich in cultural perspectives but sharing a relatively common vocabulary. It provides models for a number of interrelated approaches - including psychoanalvtic, feminist, and historical - with essays by prominent and promising scholars. All the contributions combine theory with textual readings, whether of literature, paintings, historical sources, or - in one case - a passage from Freud. The essays in ""Death and Representation"" trace the multifarious ways in which death is both unknowable and repeatedly constructed. In so doing, the collection shows how thematics - as an issue in scholarly research - can serve as a platform for interdisciplinary discussions. Essays are organized in three sections: ""Reading Death: Sign, Psyche, Text""; ""Death and Gender""; and ""History, Power, Ideology"".

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Scholarly, sensitive, and provocative inquiries into ways of revisioning and broadening people's understanding of the final exit. World Literature Today

Scholarly, sensitive, and provocative inquiries into ways of revisioning and broadening people's understanding of the final exit. --'World Literature Today'

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Sarah Webster Goodwin is associate professor of English at Skidmore College and is the author of Kitsch and Culture: The Dance of Death in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Graphic Arts. Elizabeth Bronfen is professor of English at the University of Zurich and the author of Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity, and Aesthetics.

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