Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise

Klappentext Analysis of the semiotics of death and dying in twentieth-century fiction! history and culture. Zusammenfassung This 1995 book traces the semiotics of death and dying in twentieth-century fiction and culture. It describes how modernist writers either elided rituals of death! or transformed Victorian 'aesthetic death' into modern 'dirty death'; and he shows how! through postmodern fiction and AIDS narratives! death has again become cultural currency. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Fictional death and the modernist enterprise; 2. Climactic death; 3. The ars moriendi; 4. Dying in bed; 5. Artifices of mortality; 6. Funerals and stories; 7. Life after life; 8. Survivors of apocalypse; 9. E. M. Forster; 10. Virginia Woolf; 11. Late modernism: Graham Greene; 12. Late modernism: Lawrence Durrell; 13. Postmodernism: history, chaos and death; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alan Warren Friedman
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 21.01.2008
• EAN: 9780521055673
• ISBN: 978-0-521-05567-3
• Pagine: 356
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata