Alan Warren Friedman

Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9780521055673
• ISBN-10: 0521055679
• Artikelnr.: 23364028

Inhaltsangabe

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.