Death and the Author

Zusatztext ...replete with allusions...much factual detail with additional reverie on how people act in the face of death... Informationen zum Autor David Ellis was born in Lancashire, educated at Downing College Cambridge, and is emeritus professor of English Literature at the University of Kent in Canterbury. During his teaching career he has spent considerable periods in France, Italy, Australia and the United States. In the academic year 1991-2, he was an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the National Humanities Research Center in North Carolina and in the autumn of 2003 a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study of La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Best known for this work on D. H. Lawrence, he has also published books on Wordsworth and Shakespeare and has a strong interest in comedy as well as in the art, science, and theory of biography. David Ellis is married with two daughters and now lives in Faversham, Kent. Klappentext Organised around a dramatic account of D. H. Lawrence's desperate struggle against tuberculosis, and of the bizarre events which followed his death, this book offers a series of often grimly humorous reflections on death and dying. Lawrence is the main focus throughout but there are references to a number of other famous literary consumptives. Zusammenfassung Organised around a dramatic account of D. H. Lawrence's desperate struggle against tuberculosis, and of the bizarre events which followed his death, this book offers a series of often grimly humorous reflections on death and dying. Lawrence is the main focus throughout but there are references to a number of other famous literary consumptives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: Dying 1: Bandol 2: Tuberculosis 3: Denial 4: The sanatorium 5: Alternative medicine 6: Being ill 7: Death and the after-life 8: Ending it all Part Two: Death 9: Andrew Morland 10: Ad Astra 11: Visitors 12: The hour of our death 13: Famous last words 14: Funeral 15: Pilgrims Part Three: Remembrance 16: Will power 17: Lying for truth 18: Image rights 19: Settling scores 20: Celebrations 21: Mortal remains 22: Apotheosis Postscript: on the fear of death Acknowledgements and sources ...

Product details

• Authors: David Ellis
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2008
• EAN: 9780199546657
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954665-7
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 203 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Biografien: allgemein, Soziologie: Sterben und Tod, Biography: general, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form