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Published: 1st December 1993
ISBN: 9780801846274
Number Of Pages: 344
For Ages: 22+ years old
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 unique 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 psychoanalytic, feminist, and historical -- with essays by prominent and promising scholars. Contributors are Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Regina Barreca, Elisabeth Bronfen, Carol Christ, Sander Gilman, Sarah Webster Goodwin, Margaret Higonnet, Regina Janes, Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Ronald Schleifer, Charles Segal, and Garrett Stewart.
Scholarly, sensitive, and provocative inquiries into ways of revisioning and broadening people's understanding of the final exit. * World Literature Today *
| Preface | |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Reading Death: Sign, Psyche, Text | |
| Touching Death | p. 29 |
| A Valediction For Bidding Mourning: Death and the Narratee in Bronte's Villette | p. 51 |
| Lacan, the Death Drive, and the Dream of the Burning Child | p. 80 |
| Risky Resemblances: On Repetition, Mourning, and Representation | p. 103 |
| Death and Gender | |
| Painting the Dead: Portraiture and Necrophilia in Victorian Art and Poetry | p. 133 |
| Romanticism and the Ghost of Prostitution: Freud, Maria, and "Alice Fell" | p. 152 |
| Writing as Voodoo: Sorcery, Hysteria, and Art | p. 174 |
| Women in the Forbidden Zone: War, Women, and Death | p. 192 |
| History, Power, Ideology | |
| Euripides' Alcestis: How to Die a Normal Death in Greek Tragedy | p. 213 |
| Beheadings | p. 242 |
| "Who Kills Whores?" "I Do," Says Jack: Race and Gender in Victorian London | p. 263 |
| Representing Sati: Continuities and Discontinuities | p. 285 |
| Afterword: Walter Benjamin and the Crisis of Representation: Multiplicity, Meaning, and Athematic Death | p. 312 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 335 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780801846274
ISBN-10: 0801846277
Series: Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society
Audience:
Professional
For Ages: 22+ years old
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 344
Published: 1st December 1993
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PR
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 22.84 x 15.62
x 2.01
Weight (kg): 0.48
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