Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise

Analysis of the semiotics of death and dying in twentieth-century fiction, history, and culture.

Sommario

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: A. Friedman, Alan Warren Friedman
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.03.2012
• EAN: 9780521442619
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44261-9
• Pagine: 354
• Dimensioni: 157 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Peso: 725 g
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese