Narrating Death: The Limit of Literature

Author:   Daniel Jernigan ,  Walter Wadiak ,  Michelle Wang
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   212
Publication Date:   17 October 2018
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Author:   Daniel Jernigan ,  Walter Wadiak ,  Michelle Wang
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781138360365


ISBN 10:   1138360368
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   17 October 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"List of Contributors Introduction DANIEL K. JERNIGAN, WALTER WADIAK, and W. MICHELLE WANG PART I The Uncrossable Border 1 Photography and First-Person Death: Derrida, Barthes, Poe KEVIN RIORDAN 2 ""This memoryall men may have in mynd"": Everyman and the Work of Mourning WALTER WADIAK 3 From Nothing to Never? Facing Death in King Lear MICHAEL NEILL 4 ""Is there no danger in counterfeiting death?"": Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid DANIEL K. JERNIGAN PART II Trajectories 5 ""She is the God of Calvin, she sees the beginning and the end"": Narrating Life and Death in the Fiction of Muriel Spark JOSEPH H. O’MEALY 6 Talking to the Dead: Narrative Closure and the Political Unconscious in Neil Jordan’s Fiction KEITH HOPPER 7 Samuel Johnson and the Grammar of Death LAURA DAVIES 8 Death and Romance in Sir Orfeo ELIZABETH ALLEN PART III Aesthetic Crossings 9 Death and the Maidens: John Banville’s Ekphrastic Storyworlds NEIL MURPHY 10 Blood Meridian, the Sublime, and Aesthetic Narrativizations of Death W. MICHELLE WANG 11 Murder Amidst the Chocolates: Martin McDonagh’s Multifaceted Uses of Death in In Bruges WILLIAM C. BOLES 12 The Ruined Voice in Tom Murphy’s Bailegangaire CHERYL JULIA LEE Index"

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The editors offer a valuable, singular study probing strategies for negotiating the unknowable passage from life to death as depicted in a diverse range of international literary classics. Emphasizing aesthetic devices and philosophical underpinings used by authors of each literary classic chosen, the conception of death as a passage exposes the limits and transformative qualities of death, that `uncrossable border.' This is a major study certain to inspire scholars to pursue further examinations of this most universal of journeys. -- James Fisher, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro


"""The editors offer a valuable, singular study probing strategies for negotiating the unknowable passage from life to death as depicted in a diverse range of international literary classics. Emphasizing aesthetic devices and philosophical underpinings used by authors of each literary classic chosen, the conception of death as a passage exposes the limits and transformative qualities of death, that ‘uncrossable border.’ This is a major study certain to inspire scholars to pursue further examinations of this most universal of journeys."" -- James Fisher, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro"


The editors offer a valuable, singular study probing strategies for negotiating the unknowable passage from life to death as depicted in a diverse range of international literary classics. Emphasizing aesthetic devices and philosophical underpinings used by authors of each literary classic chosen, the conception of death as a passage exposes the limits and transformative qualities of death, that 'uncrossable border.' This is a major study certain to inspire scholars to pursue further examinations of this most universal of journeys. -- James Fisher, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro


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Daniel K. Jernigan is Associate Professor of English Literature at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He has written extensively on Tom Stoppard, including his monograph, Tom Stoppard: Bucking the Postmodern (2013). He also edited Flann O’Brien: Plays and Teleplays (2013), and Aidan Higgins’s collection of radio plays, Darkling Plain: Texts for the Air (2010). Walter Wadiak is Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. He specializes in Middle English literature and has written for Exemplaria, Philological Quarterly, and Glossator. His book, Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance (Notre Dame, 2016), examines the afterlives of chivalric culture in late-medieval English romances. W. Michelle Wang is Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University’s School of Humanities, English. She received her Ph.D from The Ohio State University and was postdoctoral fellow at Queen Mary University of London, specializing in postmodern and contemporary fiction. She has published articles in the journals Narrative, Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Journal of Narrative Theory.

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