Death and Representation

By: Sarah Webster Goodwin (Editor), Elizabeth Bronfen (Editor)

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Paperback | 13 February 1994

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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 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. All the contirbutions 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 in both unknowable and repeatably constructed. In so doing, the colection shows how thematics--as an issue in scholarly research--can servce as a platform for interdisciplinary discussions. Essays are organized in three sections: "REading Death: Sign, Psyche, Text"; "Death and Gender"; and "History, Power, Ideology." 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.

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

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Theory Non-Fiction Prose Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Death & Dying Society & Culture Cultural Studies History of Ideas

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
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