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Death and Representation
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Series: Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society
Letters & EssaysLiterary Criticism
ISBN13: 9780801846274
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Dec 1 1993
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.15 Depth: 8.99
Language: English
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 unique 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 psychoanalytic, feminist, and historical--with essays by prominent and promising scholars. All the contirbutions 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 in both unknowable and repeatably constructed. In so doing, the colection shows how thematics--as an issue in scholarly research--can servce as a platform for interdisciplinary discussions. Essays are organized in three sections: REading Death: Sign, Psyche, Text; Death and Gender; and History, Power, Ideology. Contributors are Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Regina Barreca, Elisabeth Bronfen, Carol Christ, Sander Gilman, Sarah Webster Goodwin, Margaret Higonnet, Regina Janes, Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Ronald Schleifer, Charles Segal, and Garrett Stewart.
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