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The final crossing : death and dying in literature / edited by John J. Han and C. Clark Triplett.
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English
Published/Created
New York : Peter Lang, [2015]
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vi, 244 pages ; 24 cm.
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PN56.D4 F56 2015
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Death in literature
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Grief in literature
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Loss (Psychology) in literature
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Mortality in literature
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Han, John J.
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Triplett, C. Clark
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Series
Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; v. 124.
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Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; vol. 124
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Since ancient times, writers and poets have grappled with death, dying, grief, and mourning in their works. The Final Crossing: Death and Dying in Literature compiles fifteen in-depth, scholarly, and original essays on death and dying in literature from around the globe and from different time periods. Written from a variety of critical perspectives, the essays target both scholars and serious students. Death and dying is an important area of study for a variety of disciplines, including psychology, psychiatry, sociology, gerontology, medical ethics, healthcare science, health law, and literary studies. The Final Crossing is a landmark compendium of academic essays on death and dying in literary texts, such as the Iliad, Hayy ibn Yaqzan, Hamlet, The Secret Garden, and The Grapes of Wrath. This collection of essays not only brings an international flavor, but also a unique angularity to the discourse on thanatology. The novelty of perspectives reflects the diverse cultural and intellectual backgrounds of the contributors. This diversity opens up a fresh conversation on a number of age-old questions related to "the final crossing." In this volume, readers will find an intriguing array of topics for further reflection and research.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / John J. Han and C. Clark Triplett, Missouri Baptist University
Part One: Death as a Reflection of Cultural Meaning and Symbolism. Chapter 1. Gravesites in the Stories of Herman Charles Bosman: An Exploration of History, Memory, Ritual, Identity, and Landscape / Carol Leff, Rhodes University; Chapter 2. "Mouthed Graves Will Give Thee Memory": Burial Sites and Poetic Immortality in Renaissance Verse / Colin Yeo, University of Western Australia; Chapter 3. Christian and Muslim Concepts of Death and the Afterlife in Postmodern Agnostic Poetry / Marwan Nader, Queen Mary, London University, and Myrna Nader, Brunel University
Part Two: Death as a Literary Device. Chapter 4. The End of Language? Representations and Effects of Death and Dying in the Fiction of Julia Kristeva and Susan Sontag / Heather H. Yeung, Durham University & University of Sunderland; Chapter 5. Death as an Instrument for Social Criticism in Young Italian Literature / Daniela Chana, University of Vienna / Chapter 6; The Secret Garden at the Back of the North Wind: The Life and Death Journey in Frances Hodgson Burnett and George MacDonald / John Pennington, St. Norbert College
Part Three: Those Left Behind. Chapter 7. How Men Grieve: A Contemporary Allegory of the Grieving Process in Sir Orfeo Rebekah M. Fowler, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse ; Chapter 8. Haunting and Melancholia: A Reading of the Revenant in Seamus Heaney's "Casualty" / Carolyn Ownbey, McGill University; Chapter 9. Those Left Behind: The Non-Endings of Primo Levi's If This Is a Man and Aharon Appelfeld's The Immortal Bartfuss / Kelly Leavitt, Missouri Baptist University
Part Four: Death and Postmodernism. Chapter 10. The Driver's Seat: Death and Isolation in Muriel Spark's Postmodern Gothic / Hannah Farrell, Dublin, Ireland; Chapter 11. Death and Dying as Literary Devices in Brite's Exquisite Corpse and Palahniuk's Damned / Claudia Desblaches, University of Rennes 2; Chapter 12. "Stories Can Save Us": Rewriting Death in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried / Lori F. Smurthwaite, California State University, Long Beach
Part Five: Death as an Expression of Personal Experience. Chapter 13. Tears and the Art of Grief / James Brown, Birkbeck, University of London; Chapter 14. Quick and Long-Lasting: Death and Dying in John Steinbeck's Fiction / John J. Han, Missouri Baptist University
Chapter 15. Death-Defying Women: Art and Transcendence in Cather / Debra L. Cumberland, Winona State University.
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Death and dying in literature
ISBN
9781433130151 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
1433130157 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2015014327
OCLC
910964780
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