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 Four: The End of Language? Representations and Effects of Death and Dying in the Fiction of Julia Kristeva and Susan Sontag
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CHAPTER FOUR
The End OF Language?
Representations and Effects of Death and Dying in the Fiction of Julia Kristeva and Susan Sontag
HEATHER H. YEUNG
It is by means of images and sounds, not words that have to be translated by the imagination, that one can participate in the fantasy of living through one’s own death and more, the death of cities, the destruction of humanity itself.
—SONTAG, AGAINST INTERPRETATION, 210
In the tiring spectacle we present throughout the day, throughout our lives, sleep is the experience most favourable to the beauty of the face. The eyes, flowering from the head, as through from the deep wells of dreams, and the relaxed features of the dead, who can finally ignore guilt, render the myth of resurrection almost plausible. Death is undoubtedly unrepresentable.
—KRISTEVA, SEVERED HEAD, 122
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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