Death is a subject of increasing interest in virtually all academic disciplines, yet there is surprisingly little theoretical work on the representation of death in literary contexts. "Death and Representation" offers a collection of international and interdisciplinary essays, rich in cultural perspectives but sharing a relatively common vocabulary. It provides models for a number of interrelated approaches - including psychoanalvtic, feminist, and historical - with essays by prominent and promising scholars. All the contributions combine theory with textual readings, whether of literature, paintings, historical sources, or - in one case - a passage from Freud. The essays in "Death and Representation" trace the multifarious ways in which death is both unknowable and repeatedly constructed. In so doing, the collection shows how thematics - as an issue in scholarly research - can serve as a platform for interdisciplinary discussions. Essays are organized in three sections: "Reading Death: Sign, Psyche, Text"; "Death and Gender"; and "History, Power, Ideology".
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Scholarly, sensitive, and provocative inquiries into ways of revisioning and broadening people's understanding of the final exit. * World Literature Today *
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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978-0-8018-4624-3 (9780801846243)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Sarah Webster Goodwin is associate professor of English at Skidmore College and is the author of Kitsch and Culture: The Dance of Death in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Graphic Arts. Elizabeth Bronfen is professor of English at the University of Zurich and the author of Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity, and Aesthetics.
