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  1. <<The>> celebration of death in contemporary culture
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

    "The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. Over the last three decades, Halloween has grown to rival Christmas in its popularity and profitability; dark tourism has emerged as a... more

     

    "The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. Over the last three decades, Halloween has grown to rival Christmas in its popularity and profitability; dark tourism has emerged as a rapidly expanding industry; and funerals have become less traditional. "Corpse chic" and "skull style" have entered mainstream fashion, while elements of gothic, horror, torture porn, and slasher movies have streamed into more conventional genres. Monsters have become pop culture heroes: vampires, zombies, and serial killers now appeal broadly to audiences of all ages. This book considers, for the first time, these phenomena as aspects of a single movement, documenting its development in contemporary Western culture. Previous considerations of our fixation on death have not developed a convincing theory linking the mounting demand for images of violent death and the dramatic changes in death-related social rituals and practices. This book offers a conceptual framework that connects the observations of the simulated world of fiction and movies--including The Twilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries, Night Watch, Hannibal, and the Harry Potter series--to social and cultural practices, providing an analysis of the specific aesthetics and the intellectual and historical conditions that triggered the cult of death. It also considers the celebration of death in the context of a longstanding critique of humanism and investigates the role played by 20th-century French theory, as well as by posthumanism, transhumanism, and the animal rights movement, in the formation of the current antihumanist atmosphere. With its critique of movie and book blockbusters and the death-related social rituals, festivals, and fashions that have coalesced into the cult of death, this timely volume will appeal to anyone hoping to better understand a defining phenomenon of our age. Scholars and general readers of cultural studies, film and literary studies, anthropology, and American and Russian studies will find this book thought-provoking"--

     

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    ISBN: 9780472038947
    RVK Categories: MS 6300 ; EC 8780 ; EC 5410
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Subjects: Gesellschaft; Kultur; Tod <Motiv>;
    Other subjects: Death; Death in popular culture; Civilization, Modern; Culture; Death in literature; Death in motion pictures; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism
    Scope: vi, 256 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Erstmals erschienen als gebundene Ausgabe: 2017

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 241-252

  2. The Routledge companion to death and literature
    Contributor: Jernigan, Daniel K. (Herausgeber); Wang, W. Michelle (Herausgeber); Murphy, Neil (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York ; Taylor & Francis, London

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    Contributor: Jernigan, Daniel K. (Herausgeber); Wang, W. Michelle (Herausgeber); Murphy, Neil (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781003107040
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    Series: Routledge companions to literature series
    Subjects: Death in literature; Death in art; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 469 Seiten)
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  3. The celebration of death in contemporary culture
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

    "The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. Over the last three decades, Halloween has grown to rival Christmas in its popularity and profitability; dark tourism has emerged as a... more

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    "The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. Over the last three decades, Halloween has grown to rival Christmas in its popularity and profitability; dark tourism has emerged as a rapidly expanding industry; and funerals have become less traditional. "Corpse chic" and "skull style" have entered mainstream fashion, while elements of gothic, horror, torture porn, and slasher movies have streamed into more conventional genres. Monsters have become pop culture heroes: vampires, zombies, and serial killers now appeal broadly to audiences of all ages. This book considers, for the first time, these phenomena as aspects of a single movement, documenting its development in contemporary Western culture. Previous considerations of our fixation on death have not developed a convincing theory linking the mounting demand for images of violent death and the dramatic changes in death-related social rituals and practices. This book offers a conceptual framework that connects the observations of the simulated world of fiction and movies--including The Twilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries, Night Watch, Hannibal, and the Harry Potter series--to social and cultural practices, providing an analysis of the specific aesthetics and the intellectual and historical conditions that triggered the cult of death. It also considers the celebration of death in the context of a longstanding critique of humanism and investigates the role played by 20th-century French theory, as well as by posthumanism, transhumanism, and the animal rights movement, in the formation of the current antihumanist atmosphere. With its critique of movie and book blockbusters and the death-related social rituals, festivals, and fashions that have coalesced into the cult of death, this timely volume will appeal to anyone hoping to better understand a defining phenomenon of our age. Scholars and general readers of cultural studies, film and literary studies, anthropology, and American and Russian studies will find this book thought-provoking"--

     

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  4. Crying shame
    metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA

    Technische Hochschulbibliothek Rosenheim
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    ISBN: 9781444306248; 1444306243
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    Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying; Crying; Laments; Mourning customs; Weepers (Mourners); Mourning customs; Laments; Crying; Weepers (Mourners)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 274 Seiten)
  5. Death is that man taking names
    intersections of American medicine, law, and culture
    Author: Burt, Robert
    Published: ©2002
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley

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    ISBN: 0520243242; 0520931467; 1282357603; 9780520931466; 9781282357600
    RVK Categories: LB 60000 ; MS 6300
    Series: California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 7
    Subjects: Attitude to Death / United States; Death / United States; Jurisprudence / United States; Right to Die / United States; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement; MEDICAL / History; Death; Death / Social aspects; Terminal care; Geschichte; Gesellschaft; Medizin; Death; Terminal care; Death; Recht; Medizin; Tod <Motiv>; Gesellschaft
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    Includes index. - Notes: p. 187-218

    Pursuing the good death -- Hidden death -- Death at war -- Judges and death -- Doctors and death -- Choosing death -- The death penalty -- All the days of my life

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-218) and index

  6. Commemorating the dead
    texts and artifacts in context : studies of Roman, Jewish, and Christian burials
    Published: c2008
    Publisher:  Walter de Gruyter, Berlin

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    ISBN: 1281999393; 3110200546; 3110211572; 9781281999399; 9783110200546; 9783110211573
    Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying; Graven (begraafplaats); Grafschriften; Grafgiften; Joden; Romeinen (volk); Christenen; Klassieke oudheid; Burial; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Funeral service; Jewish funeral rites and ceremonies; Christentum; Judentum; Bestattung; Totenkult; Antike; Juden; Burial; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Jewish funeral rites and ceremonies; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Funeral service; Judentum; Bestattung <Motiv>; Frühjudentum; Totenkult; Christentum; Grabmal; Frühchristentum; Bestattung; Grabmal <Motiv>; Totengedächtnis
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 386 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-378) and index

    An overview of the intellectual history of catacomb archaeology / Amy K. Hirschfeld -- Housing the dead / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill -- Commemorating the dead in the communal cemeteries of Carthage / Susan T. Stevens -- Dining with the dead / Robin M. Jensen -- Sweet spices in the tomb / Deborah Green -- From Columbaria to catacombs / John Bodel -- Roman and Christian burial practices and the patronage of women / Carolyn Osiek -- From Endymion in Roman domus to Jonah in Christian catacombs / David Balch -- Looking for Abericus / Margaret M. Mitchell

    The distinctions and similarities among Roman, Jewish, and Christian burials can provide evidence of social networks, family life, and, perhaps, religious sensibilities. Is the Roman development from columbaria to catacombs the result of evolving religious identities or simply a matter of a change in burial fashions? Do the material remains from Jewish burials evidence an adherence to ancient customs, or the adaptation of rituals from surrounding cultures? What Greco-Roman funerary images were taken over and "baptized" as Christian ones? The answers to these and other questions require that the material culture be viewed, whenever possible, in situ, through multiple disciplinary lenses and in light of ancient texts. Roman historians (John Bodel, Richard Saller, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill), archaeologists (Susan Stevens, Amy Hirschfeld), scholars of rabbinic period Judaism (Deborah Green), Christian history (Robin M. Jensen), and the New Testament (David Balch, Laurie Brink, O.P., Margaret M. Mitchell, Carolyn Osiek, R.S.C.J.) engaged in a research trip to Rome and Tunisia to investigate imperial period burials first hand. Commemorting the Dead is the result of a three year scholarly conversation on their findings

  7. A history of crossroads in early modern culture
    Author: Angus, Bill
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

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    ISBN: 9781474499835; 9781474499828
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 16th Century; Kreuzung; Literatur
    Scope: 304 Seiten, Illustrationen
  8. Death, time and mortality in the later novels of Don DeLillo
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York, NY

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    ISBN: 9781000587746; 1000587746; 9781003289937; 1003289932; 9781000587791; 1000587797
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    Series: Routledge research in American literature and culture
    Subjects: Death in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying
    Other subjects: DeLillo, Don
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  9. Death, time and mortality in the later novels of Don DeLillo
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York, NY

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    ISBN: 9781000587746; 1000587746; 9781003289937; 1003289932; 9781000587791; 1000587797
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    Subjects: Death in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying
    Other subjects: DeLillo, Don
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  10. Crying shame
    metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA

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    Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying; Crying; Laments; Mourning customs; Weepers (Mourners); Mourning customs; Laments; Crying; Weepers (Mourners)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 274 Seiten)
  11. Death in Quotation Marks
    Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet
    Published: [2014]; ©1991
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

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  12. The Routledge companion to death and literature
    Contributor: Wang, W. Michelle (HerausgeberIn); Jernigan, Daniel K. (HerausgeberIn); Murphy, Neil (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York

    Traversing the ontological divide. The final frontier : science fictions of death / Brian McHale -- "Still I danced" : performing death in Ford's The broken heart / Donovan Sherman -- Death and the margins of theatre in Luigi Pirandello / Daniel... more

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    Traversing the ontological divide. The final frontier : science fictions of death / Brian McHale -- "Still I danced" : performing death in Ford's The broken heart / Donovan Sherman -- Death and the margins of theatre in Luigi Pirandello / Daniel Jernigan -- Forbidden mental fruit? Dead narrators and characters from medieval to postmodernist narratives / Jan Alber -- Literature and the afterlife / Alice Bennett -- The novel as heartbeat : the dead narrator in Mike McCormack's Solar bones / Neil Murphy -- Dead man/and woman talking : narratives from beyond the grave / Philippe Carrard -- The view from upstream : authority and projection in Fontenelle's Nouveaux dialogues des morts / Jessica Goodman -- Genres. Big questions : re-visioning and re-scripting death narratives in children's literature / Lesley Clement -- In the U-bend with Moaning Myrtle : thinking about death in YA literature / Karen Coats -- Death and mourning in graphic narrative / José Alaniz -- Death and documentaries : heuristics for the real in an age of simulation / Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter -- Death and the fanciulla / Reed Way Dasenbrock -- Death, literary form, and affective comprehension : primary emotions and the neurological basis of genre / Ronald Schleifer -- Site, Space, and Spatiality. Ecocide 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 & 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 Crawford -- Rituals, memorials, and epitaphs. Death 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 Zigarovich -- The 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 Nade -- Living with death : writing, mourning, and consolation. "An immense expenditure of energy come to nothing" : philosophy, literature, and death in Peter Weiss' 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 -- Historical engagements. On 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 -- Coda / Julian Gough. "The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale, Catherine Belling, Ronald Schleifer, Helen Swift and Ira Nadel, as well as the work of a generation of younger scholars from around the globe, who bring valuable transnational insights"--

     

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    Contributor: Wang, W. Michelle (HerausgeberIn); Jernigan, Daniel K. (HerausgeberIn); Murphy, Neil (HerausgeberIn)
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    ISBN: 9781003107040
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    Subjects: Death in literature; Death in art; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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  13. The celebration of death in contemporary culture
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

    "The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. Over the last three decades, Halloween has grown to rival Christmas in its popularity and profitability; dark tourism has emerged as a... more

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    "The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. Over the last three decades, Halloween has grown to rival Christmas in its popularity and profitability; dark tourism has emerged as a rapidly expanding industry; and funerals have become less traditional. "Corpse chic" and "skull style" have entered mainstream fashion, while elements of gothic, horror, torture porn, and slasher movies have streamed into more conventional genres. Monsters have become pop culture heroes: vampires, zombies, and serial killers now appeal broadly to audiences of all ages. This book considers, for the first time, these phenomena as aspects of a single movement, documenting its development in contemporary Western culture. Previous considerations of our fixation on death have not developed a convincing theory linking the mounting demand for images of violent death and the dramatic changes in death-related social rituals and practices. This book offers a conceptual framework that connects the observations of the simulated world of fiction and movies--including The Twilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries, Night Watch, Hannibal, and the Harry Potter series--to social and cultural practices, providing an analysis of the specific aesthetics and the intellectual and historical conditions that triggered the cult of death. It also considers the celebration of death in the context of a longstanding critique of humanism and investigates the role played by 20th-century French theory, as well as by posthumanism, transhumanism, and the animal rights movement, in the formation of the current antihumanist atmosphere. With its critique of movie and book blockbusters and the death-related social rituals, festivals, and fashions that have coalesced into the cult of death, this timely volume will appeal to anyone hoping to better understand a defining phenomenon of our age. Scholars and general readers of cultural studies, film and literary studies, anthropology, and American and Russian studies will find this book thought-provoking"--

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780472130269; 9780472038947
    RVK Categories: EC 5410 ; EC 8780 ; MS 6300 ; BS 3450
    Subjects: Tod <Motiv>; Postmoderne; Literatur; Film; Tod; Bestattung
    Other subjects: Death; Death in popular culture; Civilization, Modern; Culture; Death in literature; Death in motion pictures; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism
    Scope: vi, 256 Seiten
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    First paperback edition 2022

  14. The emotional life of contemporary public memorials
    towards a theory of temporary memorials
    Published: ©2008
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

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    ISBN: 1281988421; 904850340X; 9089640185; 9781281988423; 9789048503407; 9789089640185
    Series: Meertens ethnology cahier ; 3
    Subjects: Grief; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying; Humanities; History; Society and social sciences; Society and culture: general; Sociology and anthropology; Grief / Social aspects; Memorial rites and ceremonies; Memorials; Mourning customs; Shrines; ((Das)) Ephemere; Denkmal; Kollektives Gedächtnis; Geschichte; Gesellschaft; Mourning customs; Shrines; Memorials; Memorial rites and ceremonies; Grief; Denkmal; Das Ephemere; Kollektives Gedächtnis
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 43-52)

    From the commemoration of September 11 to the Holocaust memorial in Berlin to the 2004 unveiling of the National World War II Memorial in Washington D.C., recent decades have witnessed a substantial increase in the number of new public memorials built in both Europe and the United States. This volume considers the contemporary explosion of public commemoration in terms of changed cultural and social practices of mourning, memory, and public feeling

    Preliminaries -- - Things Matter -- - Public Grief -- - Mourning Codes -- - Death Matters -- - Memory and Public Feeling -- - Conclusion -- - Notes

  15. Death on the small screen
    the psychology of viewing violent television
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina

    "Even though mortality remains a taboo topic in much of Western society, death and violence continue to be staples of popular television shows. We can better understand the appeal of violence in popular television by investigating psychological... more

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    "Even though mortality remains a taboo topic in much of Western society, death and violence continue to be staples of popular television shows. We can better understand the appeal of violence in popular television by investigating psychological theories surrounding anxiety about death and the defenses we use to manage that anxiety. Through an examination of five recent television series--Game of Thrones,The Punisher, Jessica Jones, Sons of Anarchy and Hannibal--this book examines how fictional characters' motivations teach viewers valuable lessons about both the constructive and destructive ways we try to deal with our own mortality. Instead of dismissing violent television as harmless entertainment or completely condemning it as a dangerous trigger of hostile behavior, this book examines its effects on viewers in a more nuanced manner. The book provides a new perspective on the enjoyment of violent television, enhancing fans' appreciation for the featured shows and sparking ongoing discussions about their value to both the individual and society"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781476688015
    Subjects: Fernsehserie; Tod <Motiv>; Gewalt <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Violence on television / Psychological aspects; Death on television / Psychological aspects; Television viewers / Psychology; Action and adventure television programs / United States / History and criticism; PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying; Death on television
    Scope: vii, 204 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
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    Dying to Watch: The Role of Death Anxiety in the Appeal of Fictional Violence -- The Paramount Place of Death in Human Psychology: An Overview of Terror Management theory -- Applying TMT to Illumine the Motives for and Reactions to Fictional Violence -- There Is Only One Thing We Say to Death-Not Today: Battling Existential Terror in HBO's Game of Thrones -- Death-Denying (Super)heroism: Gender, Trauma, and Violence in Marvel's The Punisher on Netflix -- Death-Confronting (Super)heroism: Facing Existential and Social Problems in Marvel's Jessica Jones on Netflix -- Moral and Existential Dilemmas and the Quest for Death Transcendence in the FX Television Series Sons of Anarchy -- Giving Voice to the Unmentionable: The Appeal of Transcending Mortality and Corporeality in the NBC Television Series Hannibal

  16. Death in Quotation Marks
    Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet
    Published: [2014]; ©1991
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

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  17. The Routledge companion to death and literature
    Contributor: Wang, W. Michelle (HerausgeberIn); Jernigan, Daniel K. (HerausgeberIn); Murphy, Neil (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York

    Traversing the ontological divide. The final frontier : science fictions of death / Brian McHale -- "Still I danced" : performing death in Ford's The broken heart / Donovan Sherman -- Death and the margins of theatre in Luigi Pirandello / Daniel... more

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    Traversing the ontological divide. The final frontier : science fictions of death / Brian McHale -- "Still I danced" : performing death in Ford's The broken heart / Donovan Sherman -- Death and the margins of theatre in Luigi Pirandello / Daniel Jernigan -- Forbidden mental fruit? Dead narrators and characters from medieval to postmodernist narratives / Jan Alber -- Literature and the afterlife / Alice Bennett -- The novel as heartbeat : the dead narrator in Mike McCormack's Solar bones / Neil Murphy -- Dead man/and woman talking : narratives from beyond the grave / Philippe Carrard -- The view from upstream : authority and projection in Fontenelle's Nouveaux dialogues des morts / Jessica Goodman -- Genres. Big questions : re-visioning and re-scripting death narratives in children's literature / Lesley Clement -- In the U-bend with Moaning Myrtle : thinking about death in YA literature / Karen Coats -- Death and mourning in graphic narrative / José Alaniz -- Death and documentaries : heuristics for the real in an age of simulation / Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter -- Death and the fanciulla / Reed Way Dasenbrock -- Death, literary form, and affective comprehension : primary emotions and the neurological basis of genre / Ronald Schleifer -- Site, Space, and Spatiality. Ecocide 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 & 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 Crawford -- Rituals, memorials, and epitaphs. Death 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 Zigarovich -- The 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 Nade -- Living with death : writing, mourning, and consolation. "An immense expenditure of energy come to nothing" : philosophy, literature, and death in Peter Weiss' 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 -- Historical engagements. On 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 -- Coda / Julian Gough. "The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale, Catherine Belling, Ronald Schleifer, Helen Swift and Ira Nadel, as well as the work of a generation of younger scholars from around the globe, who bring valuable transnational insights"--

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Wang, W. Michelle (HerausgeberIn); Jernigan, Daniel K. (HerausgeberIn); Murphy, Neil (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003107040
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    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Edition: First published
    Series: Routledge companions to literature series
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    Subjects: Death in literature; Death in art; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 469 Seiten)