Introduction PART I Traversing the Ontological Divide
- IntroductionThe Final Frontier: Science Fictions of Death- Brian McHale"Still I Danced": Performing Death in Ford's The Broken Heart - Donovan ShermanDeath and the Margins of Theatre in Luigi Pirandello- Daniel K. JerniganForbidden Mental Fruit? Dead Narrators and Characters from Medieval to Postmodernist Narratives- Jan AlberLiterature and the Afterlife - Alice BennettThe Novel as Heartbeat: The Dead Narrator in Mike McCormack's Solar Bones- Neil MurphyDead Man/and Woman Talking: Narratives from Beyond the Grave- Philippe CarrardThe View from Upstream: Authority and Projection in Fontenelle's Nouveaux dialogues des morts- Jessica GoodmanPART II Genres- IntroductionBig Questions: Re-Visioning and Re-Scripting Death Narratives in Children's Literature - Lesley D. ClementIn the U-Bend with Moaning Myrtle: Thinking about Death in YA Literature - Karen CoatsDeath and Mourning in Graphic Narrative- José AlanizDeath and Documentaries: Heuristics for the Real in an Age of Simulation- Benjamin Bennett-CarpenterDeath and the Fanciulla- Reed Way Dasenbrock Death, Literary Form, and Affective Comprehension: Primary Emotions and the Neurological Basis of Genre- Ronald SchleiferPART III Site, Space, and Spatiality- IntroductionEcocide and the Anthropocene: Death and the Environment- Flore Coulouma A Disney Death: Coco, Black Panther, and the Limits of the Afterlife - Stacy Thompson Suicide in the Early Modern Elegiac Tradition- Kelly McGuire Institutions and Elegies: Viewing the Dead in W. B. Yeats and John Wieners- Barry Sheils and Julie Walsh Death "after Long Silence": Auditing Agamben's Metaphysics of Negativity in Yeats's Lyric- Samuel Caleb Wee The Spatialization of Death in the Novels of Virginia Woolf- Ian Tan "Memento Mori": memory, Death, and Posterity in Singapore's Poetry- Jen CrawfordPART IV Rituals, Memorials, and Epitaphs- IntroductionDeath and the Dead in Verse Funerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece- Arianna Gullo Fictional Will- Helen Swift Monumentalism, Death, and Genre in Shakespeare- John Tangney Death and Gothic Romanticism: Dilating in/upon the Graveyard, Meditating among the Tombs- Carol Margaret Davison Death, Literature, and the Victorian Era- Jolene ZigarovichThe Aura of the Phonographic Relic: Hearing the Voices of the Dead- Angela Frattarola Anecdotal Death: Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets - Laura Davies Biography: Life after Death - Ira NadelPART V Living with Death: Writing, Mourning, and Consolation- Introduction"An immense expenditure of energy come to nothing": Philosophy, Literature, and Death in Peter Weiss's Abschied von den Eltern- Christopher Hamilton Paradox, Death, and the Divine- Jamie Lin Inner Seeing and Death Anxiety in Aidan Higgins's Blind Man's Bluff and Other Life Writing- Lara O'Muirithe Autothanatography and Contemporary Poetry- Ivan Callus When Time Stops: Death and Autobiography in Contemporary Personal Narratives- Rosalía Baena "Grief made her insubstantial to herself": Illness, Aging, and Death in A. S. Byatt's Little Black Book of Stories- Graham Matthews PART VI Historical Engagements- IntroductionOn the Corpse of a Loved One in the Era of Brain Death: Bioethics and Fictions- Catherine Belling Death to the Music of Time: Reticence in Anthony Powell's Mediated Narratives of Death- Catherine Hoffmann Death and Chinese War Television Dramas: (Re)configuring Ethical Judgments in The Disguiser- W. Michelle Wang Where Do the Disappeared Go? Writing the Genocide in East Timor- Kit Ying Lye "Doubtfull Drede": Dying at the End of the Middle Ages- Walter Wadiak Urbanization, Ambiguity, and Social Death in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn - Wanlin Li 42. Coda - Julian Gough