Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780230364240 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 228 str.

Alice Bennett

Opis

Focuses on the endangering effects of languageideological processes. This book looks at the challenges imposed by globalization and superdiversity on the nation state and its language situations and ideologies, and demonstrates how many of its problems rise from the tension between latemodern diversity and the (pre)modernist responses to it.

Recenzje

'Bennett's unique focus on 'after life' narratives provides valuable insight into some of the possible repercussions of writing fiction in a time of 'posts' (postmodernism, posthumanism, and even posthumousism. Between these "posts," Bennett demonstrates that after-life narratives have the ability to give a voice to the dispossessed, and to create a space of discursive experimentation for perspectives that are non-Christian and non-Western. After Life is essential reading for anyone interested in what comes after the death of the author.' - Professor Marcel O'Gorman, Department of English, University of Waterloo, Canada

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Afterlife Now Dead Endings: Making Meaning from the Afterlife Killing Time: Narrating Eternity After Effects: Purgatory, Prolepsis and the Past Tense Plotting Murder: Genre, Plot and the Dead Narrator Ghostwords: Mind-Reading and the Dead Narrator Death Writing: Deixis of Person and the Dead Narrator Here, There and Hereafter: Fictional Worlds and the Afterlife After Life Writing Appendix: Chronology of Primary Texts Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

ALICE BENNETT Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at Liverpool Hope University, UK. She taught modern literature and theory at Durham University, UK, where she also completed her PhD.