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Death Is Served: The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in Us Literature and Media

Death Is Served: The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in Us Literature and Media

Castelli, Stella

Paperback

Series: American Culture Studies

TelevisionGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3837665690
ISBN13: 9783837665697
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Published: May 23 2023
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. Stella Castelli shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from the inability of language to satisfactorily grasp death. Taking an intermedial approach, she investigates the forms and tropes born from this preoccupation with death and conceptualizes its imagination alongside an appetite which manifests as repetitive encoding. These metaphors of food consumption provide a hermeneutic framing for analyzing representations of death across American literature and media.

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