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Death and Representation

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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 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 psychoanalvtic, feminist, and historical - with essays by prominent and promising scholars. All the contributions 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 is both unknowable and repeatedly constructed. In so doing, the collection shows how thematics - as an issue in scholarly research - can serve as a platform for interdisciplinary discussions. Essays are organized in three sections: "Reading Death: Sign, Psyche, Text"; "Death and Gender"; and "History, Power, Ideology".

Author Biography:

Sarah Webster Goodwin is associate professor of English at Skidmore College and is the author of Kitsch and Culture: The Dance of Death in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Graphic Arts. Elizabeth Bronfen is professor of English at the University of Zurich and the author of Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity, and Aesthetics.
Release date Australia
January 26th, 1994
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Contributors
  • Edited by Elizabeth Bronfen
  • Edited by Sarah Webster Goodwin
Pages
344
Dimensions
152x229x19
ISBN-13
9780801846274
Product ID
2836136

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