The Final Crossing
Death and Dying in Literature
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- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2015. VIII, 254 pp.
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- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
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- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Death as a Reflection of Cultural Meaning and Symbolism
- Chapter One: Gravesites in the Stories of Herman Charles Bosman: An Exploration of History, Memory, Ritual, Identity, and Landscape
- Chapter Two: “Mouthed Graves Will Give Thee Memory”: Burial Sites and Poetic Immortality in Renaissance Verse
- Chapter Three: Christian and Muslim Concepts of Death and the Afterlife in Postmodern Agnostic Poetry
- Part Two: Death as a Literary Device
- Chapter Four: The End of Language? Representations and Effects of Death and Dying in the Fiction of Julia Kristeva and Susan Sontag
- Chapter Five: Death as an Instrument for Social Criticism in Young Italian Literature
- Chapter Six: The Secret Garden at the Back of the North Wind: The Life and Death Journey in Frances Hodgson Burnett and George MacDonald
- Part Three: Those Left Behind
- Chapter Seven: How Men Grieve: A Contemporary Allegory of the Grieving Process in Sir Orfeo
- Chapter Eight: Haunting and Melancholia: A Reading of the Revenant in Seamus Heaney’s “Casualty”
- Chapter Nine: Those Left Behind: The Non-Endings of Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man and Aharon Appelfeld’s The Immortal Bartfuss
- Part Four: Death and Postmodernism
- Chapter Ten: In The Driver’s Seat: Death and Isolation in Muriel Spark’s Postmodern Gothic
- Chapter Eleven: Death and Dying as Literary Devices in Brite’s Exquisite Corpse and Palahniuk’s Damned
- Chapter Twelve: “Stories Can Save Us”: Rewriting Death in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried
- Part Five: Death as an Expression of Personal Experience
- Chapter Thirteen: Tears and the Art of Grief
- Chapter Fourteen: Quick and Long-Lasting: Death and Dying in John Steinbeck’s Fiction
- Chapter Fifteen: Death-Defying Women: Art and Transcendence in Cather
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Index
- Series index
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Death as a Reflection of Cultural Meaning and Symbolism
- Chapter One: Gravesites in the Stories of Herman Charles Bosman: An Exploration of History, Memory, Ritual, Identity, and Landscape
- Chapter Two: “Mouthed Graves Will Give Thee Memory”: Burial Sites and Poetic Immortality in Renaissance Verse
- Chapter Three: Christian and Muslim Concepts of Death and the Afterlife in Postmodern Agnostic Poetry
- Part Two: Death as a Literary Device
- Chapter Four: The End of Language? Representations and Effects of Death and Dying in the Fiction of Julia Kristeva and Susan Sontag
- Chapter Five: Death as an Instrument for Social Criticism in Young Italian Literature
- Chapter Six: The Secret Garden at the Back of the North Wind: The Life and Death Journey in Frances Hodgson Burnett and George MacDonald
- Part Three: Those Left Behind
- Chapter Seven: How Men Grieve: A Contemporary Allegory of the Grieving Process in Sir Orfeo
- Chapter Eight: Haunting and Melancholia: A Reading of the Revenant in Seamus Heaney’s “Casualty”
- Chapter Nine: Those Left Behind: The Non-Endings of Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man and Aharon Appelfeld’s The Immortal Bartfuss
- Part Four: Death and Postmodernism
- Chapter Ten: In The Driver’s Seat: Death and Isolation in Muriel Spark’s Postmodern Gothic
- Chapter Eleven: Death and Dying as Literary Devices in Brite’s Exquisite Corpse and Palahniuk’s Damned
- Chapter Twelve: “Stories Can Save Us”: Rewriting Death in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried
- Part Five: Death as an Expression of Personal Experience
- Chapter Thirteen: Tears and the Art of Grief
- Chapter Fourteen: Quick and Long-Lasting: Death and Dying in John Steinbeck’s Fiction
- Chapter Fifteen: Death-Defying Women: Art and Transcendence in Cather
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Index
- Series index
Chapter Two: “Mouthed Graves Will Give Thee Memory”: Burial Sites and Poetic Immortality in Renaissance Verse
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CHAPTER TWO
“Mouthed Graves Will Give Thee Memory”
Burial Sites and Poetic Immortality in Renaissance Verse
COLIN YEO
INTRODUCTION
A person’s tomb or grave serves as a marker of the individual’s existence on earth. To those still living, burial sites serve as material reminders of a deceased person’s time among the living. Graves and tombs remain in the material world long after an individual’s passing, and serve as testaments to an individual’s existence. Burial sites also serve as ideal motifs for poets to reflect on the subject of death and the transience of life. In eighteenth-century England, a group of poets became known for their verses that were centered on the locale of burial sites.
The subject of these poets’ work meditated extensively on death and the transience of life set against backdrops of graves and tombs. As Edward Young writes in Night Thoughts (1742–45),
How populous? How vital, is the Grave!
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Death as a Reflection of Cultural Meaning and Symbolism
- Chapter One: Gravesites in the Stories of Herman Charles Bosman: An Exploration of History, Memory, Ritual, Identity, and Landscape
- Chapter Two: “Mouthed Graves Will Give Thee Memory”: Burial Sites and Poetic Immortality in Renaissance Verse
- Chapter Three: Christian and Muslim Concepts of Death and the Afterlife in Postmodern Agnostic Poetry
- Part Two: Death as a Literary Device
- Chapter Four: The End of Language? Representations and Effects of Death and Dying in the Fiction of Julia Kristeva and Susan Sontag
- Chapter Five: Death as an Instrument for Social Criticism in Young Italian Literature
- Chapter Six: The Secret Garden at the Back of the North Wind: The Life and Death Journey in Frances Hodgson Burnett and George MacDonald
- Part Three: Those Left Behind
- Chapter Seven: How Men Grieve: A Contemporary Allegory of the Grieving Process in Sir Orfeo
- Chapter Eight: Haunting and Melancholia: A Reading of the Revenant in Seamus Heaney’s “Casualty”
- Chapter Nine: Those Left Behind: The Non-Endings of Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man and Aharon Appelfeld’s The Immortal Bartfuss
- Part Four: Death and Postmodernism
- Chapter Ten: In The Driver’s Seat: Death and Isolation in Muriel Spark’s Postmodern Gothic
- Chapter Eleven: Death and Dying as Literary Devices in Brite’s Exquisite Corpse and Palahniuk’s Damned
- Chapter Twelve: “Stories Can Save Us”: Rewriting Death in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried
- Part Five: Death as an Expression of Personal Experience
- Chapter Thirteen: Tears and the Art of Grief
- Chapter Fourteen: Quick and Long-Lasting: Death and Dying in John Steinbeck’s Fiction
- Chapter Fifteen: Death-Defying Women: Art and Transcendence in Cather
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Index
- Series index
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Death as a Reflection of Cultural Meaning and Symbolism
- Chapter One: Gravesites in the Stories of Herman Charles Bosman: An Exploration of History, Memory, Ritual, Identity, and Landscape
- Chapter Two: “Mouthed Graves Will Give Thee Memory”: Burial Sites and Poetic Immortality in Renaissance Verse
- Chapter Three: Christian and Muslim Concepts of Death and the Afterlife in Postmodern Agnostic Poetry
- Part Two: Death as a Literary Device
- Chapter Four: The End of Language? Representations and Effects of Death and Dying in the Fiction of Julia Kristeva and Susan Sontag
- Chapter Five: Death as an Instrument for Social Criticism in Young Italian Literature
- Chapter Six: The Secret Garden at the Back of the North Wind: The Life and Death Journey in Frances Hodgson Burnett and George MacDonald
- Part Three: Those Left Behind
- Chapter Seven: How Men Grieve: A Contemporary Allegory of the Grieving Process in Sir Orfeo
- Chapter Eight: Haunting and Melancholia: A Reading of the Revenant in Seamus Heaney’s “Casualty”
- Chapter Nine: Those Left Behind: The Non-Endings of Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man and Aharon Appelfeld’s The Immortal Bartfuss
- Part Four: Death and Postmodernism
- Chapter Ten: In The Driver’s Seat: Death and Isolation in Muriel Spark’s Postmodern Gothic
- Chapter Eleven: Death and Dying as Literary Devices in Brite’s Exquisite Corpse and Palahniuk’s Damned
- Chapter Twelve: “Stories Can Save Us”: Rewriting Death in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried
- Part Five: Death as an Expression of Personal Experience
- Chapter Thirteen: Tears and the Art of Grief
- Chapter Fourteen: Quick and Long-Lasting: Death and Dying in John Steinbeck’s Fiction
- Chapter Fifteen: Death-Defying Women: Art and Transcendence in Cather
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Index
- Series index