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Narrating Death: The Limit of Literature (Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature)

Narrating Death: The Limit of Literature (Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature)

by Michelle Wang (Editor), Daniel K. Jernigan (Editor), Walter Wadiak (Editor)

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 224
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 26 Oct 2018
ISBN 10: 1138360368
ISBN 13: 9781138360365

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The editors offer a valuable, singular study probing strategies for negotiating the unknowable passage from life to death as depicted in a diverse range of international literary classics. Emphasizing aesthetic devices and philosophical underpinings used by authors of each literary classic chosen, the conception of death as a passage exposes the limits and transformative qualities of death, that `uncrossable border.' This is a major study certain to inspire scholars to pursue further examinations of this most universal of journeys.

-- James Fisher, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Author Bio
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, specializing in postmodern and contemporary fiction. She has published articles in the journal Narrative, Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Journal of Narrative Theory.