Narrating Death: The Limit of Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367665012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 212 str.

Daniel Jernigan; Walter Wadiak; Michelle Wang

Opis

Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives try to push the boundaries of what can be said about death.

Spis treści

List of Contributors

Introduction

   DANIEL K. JERNIGAN, WALTER WADIAK, and W. MICHELLE WANG

PART I

The Uncrossable Border

1 Photography and First-Person Death: Derrida, Barthes, Poe

   KEVIN RIORDAN

2 "This memoryall men may have in mynd": Everyman and the Work of Mourning

   WALTER WADIAK

3 From Nothing to Never? Facing Death in King Lear

   MICHAEL NEILL

4 "Is there no danger in counterfeiting death?": Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid

   DANIEL K. JERNIGAN

PART II

Trajectories

5 "She is the God of Calvin, she sees the beginning and the end": Narrating Life and Death in the Fiction of Muriel Spark

   JOSEPH H. O’MEALY

6 Talking to the Dead: Narrative Closure and the Political Unconscious in Neil Jordan’s Fiction

   KEITH HOPPER

7 Samuel Johnson and the Grammar of Death

   LAURA DAVIES

8 Death and Romance in Sir Orfeo

   ELIZABETH ALLEN

PART III

Aesthetic Crossings

9 Death and the Maidens: John Banville’s Ekphrastic Storyworlds

   NEIL MURPHY

10 Blood Meridian, the Sublime, and Aesthetic Narrativizations of Death

   W. MICHELLE WANG

11 Murder Amidst the Chocolates: Martin McDonagh’s Multifaceted Uses of Death in In Bruges

   WILLIAM C. BOLES

12 The Ruined Voice in Tom Murphy’s Bailegangaire

   CHERYL JULIA LEE

Index

O autorze

Daniel K. Jernigan is Associate Professor of English Literature at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He has written extensively on Tom Stoppard, including his monograph, Tom Stoppard: Bucking the Postmodern (2013). He also edited Flann O’Brien: Plays and Teleplays (2013), and Aidan Higgins’s collection of radio plays, Darkling Plain: Texts for the Air (2010).

Walter Wadiak is Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. He specializes in Middle English literature and has written for Exemplaria, Philological Quarterly, and Glossator. His book, Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance (Notre Dame, 2016), examines the afterlives of chivalric culture in late-medieval English romances.

W. Michelle Wang is Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University’s School of Humanities, English. She received her Ph.D from The Ohio State University and was postdoctoral fellow at Queen Mary University of London, specializing in postmodern and contemporary fiction. She has published articles in the journals Narrative, Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Journal of Narrative Theory.