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  1. Reading death in ancient Rome
    Author: Erasmo, Mario
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Ohio State Univ. Press, Columbus

    "In Reading Death in Ancient Rome, Mario Erasmo considers both actual funerary rituals and their literary depictions in epic, elegy, epitaphs, drama, and prose works as a form of participatory theater in which the performers and the depicters of... more

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    "In Reading Death in Ancient Rome, Mario Erasmo considers both actual funerary rituals and their literary depictions in epic, elegy, epitaphs, drama, and prose works as a form of participatory theater in which the performers and the depicters of rituals engage in strategies to involve the viewer/reader in the ritual process, specifically by invoking and playing on their cultural associations at a number of levels simultaneously. He focuses on the associative reading process-the extent to which literary texts allude to funeral and burial ritual, the narrative role played by the allusion to recreate a fictive version of the ritual, and how the allusion engages readers' knowledge of the ritual or previous literary intertexts." "Such a strategy can advance a range of authorial agendas by inviting readers to read and reread assumptions about both the surrounding Roman culture and earlier literature invoked through intertextual referencing. By (re)defining their relation to the dead, readers assume various roles in an ongoing communion with the departed." "Reading Death in Ancient Rome makes an important and innovative contribution to semiotic theory as applied to classical texts and to the emerging field of mortality studies. It should thus appeal to classicists as well as to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in art history and archeology."--BOOK JACKET.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780814256282; 9780814210925; 0814210929
    RVK Categories: FB 4068 ; NH 8575 ; FT 92000 ; FB 4032
    Edition: Paperback edition
    Subjects: Littérature latine - Histoire et critique; Mort - Dans la littérature; Death in literature; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Latin literature; Mourning customs; Bestattungsritus; Tod; Literatur; Brauchtum; Tod; Latein
    Scope: XII, 257 Seiten, Ill.
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  2. Der Todesgedanke in der deutschen Dichtung vom Mittelalter bis zur Romantik
    Author: Rehm, Walther
    Published: 1967
    Publisher:  Niemeyer, Tübingen

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    Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
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    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    RVK Categories: GE 4997
    Edition: 2.Aufl.
    Series: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwiss. u. Geistesgeschichte. Buchreihe. ; 14.
    Subjects: Littérature allemande; Mort dans la littérature; Death in literature; German literature; Tod <Motiv>; Literatur; Deutsch
    Scope: IX,482 S.
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    Repr.d.Ausg.Halle 1928
  3. Response to death
    the literary work of Mourning
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0888644213
    RVK Categories: EA 1545 ; HG 431
    Edition: 1. ed., 1. print.
    Series: Canadian review of comparative literature ; 30.2003,1
    Subjects: Death in literature; Bereavement in literature
    Scope: 273 S
  4. The poetics of apocalypse
    Federico Garcia Lorca's Poet in New York
    Author: Nandorfy, Martha
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Bucknell Univ. Press, Lewisburg, Pa. ; Assoc. Univ. Pr., London

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0838755356
    RVK Categories: IP 3905
    Subjects: García Lorca, Federico <1898-1936>; Apocalypse in literature; Death in literature
    Scope: 318 S, Abb
  5. Leaving words to remember
    Greek mourning and the advent of literacy
    Author: Derderian, Katharine
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden

    Preliminary Material -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE UNSPEAKABLE LAMENT: THE HOMERIC ΓOOΣ AND THE HEROES -- THE ARCHAIC EPIGRAM AND THE ADVENT OF WRITING -- ΓRAMMATA ΛEΓONTA TAΔE: CASE STUDIES IN CLASSICAL MOURNING -- THE EPITAPHIOS LOGOS... more

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    Preliminary Material -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE UNSPEAKABLE LAMENT: THE HOMERIC ΓOOΣ AND THE HEROES -- THE ARCHAIC EPIGRAM AND THE ADVENT OF WRITING -- ΓRAMMATA ΛEΓONTA TAΔE: CASE STUDIES IN CLASSICAL MOURNING -- THE EPITAPHIOS LOGOS AND MOURNING IN THE ATHENIAN POLIS -- SOME CONCLUSIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GENERAL INDEX -- INDEX OF GREEK TERMS -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE by H. Pinkster , H.W. Pleket , C.J. Ruijgh , D.M. Schenkeveld and P.H. Schrijvers. This volume examines the influence of literacy on the development of different genres of mourning in ancient Greece. The oral tradition of lament in the Homeric poems forms the point of departure for close readings of epigraphic material and written texts commemorating the dead in the archaic and classical periods, including grave epigrams, threnoi, tragedy, and Athenian epitaphioi . These texts reveal the non-linear development of Greek literacy and offer insight into the ongoing influence of lament in diverse poetic genres and the evolving uses of death and mourning in different media. In particular, the discussion focuses on the role of writing in commemorating soldiers and the evolution of the written memorial into a historical and civic medium of communication

     
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    Language: English; Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
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    ISBN: 9789047400455
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    Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 209
    Subjects: Greek literature; Written communication; Mourning customs in literature; Grief in literature; Literacy; Death in literature; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Greek literature; Grief in literature; Literacy; Manners and customs; Mourning customs; Mourning customs in literature; Written communication; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 206 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  6. Birth and death in nineteenth-century french culture
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction /Lisa Downing , Nigel Harkness , Sonya Stephens and Tim Unwin -- George Sand: la genèse des fins de romans /Claudine Grossir -- Flaubert, Apuleius and Ovid: The Genesis of a Recurring Theme... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction /Lisa Downing , Nigel Harkness , Sonya Stephens and Tim Unwin -- George Sand: la genèse des fins de romans /Claudine Grossir -- Flaubert, Apuleius and Ovid: The Genesis of a Recurring Theme /Stephen Goddard -- Perdue en traduction: Translation, Betrayal and Death in Mérimée’s Carmen /Larry Duffy -- Le Tombeau de la Poésie: Strategies of Textual Resurrection in Mallarmé and Banville /Davi Devans -- Wilde’s Salomé: Tenses, Tension and Progression in Salomé’s Final Monologue /Peter Cogman -- Figures de l’artiste et comédiens du réel: de la difficile naissance à l’implacable mort dans La Comédie humaine /Isabelle Michelot -- Soeur Philomène ou comment la mort s’invite à l’hôpital /Barbara Giraud -- Death for Beginners: Nineteenth-Century Katabatic Narratives for Young Readers /Kiera Vaclavik -- Stendhal’s Rebellious Mothers and the Fight Against Death-by-Maternity /Maria Scott -- La Mort de Madame de Vernon et les deux dénouements de Delphine: invention romanesque et réminiscences maternelles chez Madame de Staël /Catherine Dubeau -- Midwifery and Malpractice in Fécondité: Zola’s Fictional History of Problematical Maternities /Carmenk. Mayer-Robin -- L’érotisme cristallin de Théophile Gautier: étude de la figure de la ‘morte amoureuse’ dans les contes fantastiques /Nathalie Dumas -- L’Évangile de la pourriture selon Saint Huysmans: Lydwine de Schiedam /Philippe Berthier -- Une esthétique de la mort au dix-neuvième siècle: Alphonse Daudet /Isabelle Droit -- Selon Max Nordau: le poème naturel du corps de Mallarmé /Pascal Caron -- The Aesthetics of Self-Skeletonization in James Ensor /Claire Moran -- Notes on Contributors -- Index. This volume draws contributors from around the globe who represent the full range of approaches to scholarship in nineteenth-century French studies: historical, literary, cultural, art historical, philosophical, and comparative. The theme of the volume – Birth and Death – is one with particular resonance for nineteenth-century French studies, since the nineteenth century is commonly perceived as an age of new life and renovation. It is the epoch that witnessed an efflorescence of industrial and artistic progress, the birth of the individual and the birth of the novel, and the creation of an urban population in the major demographic shift from the rural provinces to Paris. At the same time, however, it is the century of Decadence and degeneration theory, marked by a prominent morbid aesthetic in the artistic sphere and a fascination with criminality, moral decay and the pathologization of racial and sexual minorities in the scientific discourses. It is also the century in which reflection on processes of artistic creation begins to problematize concepts of mimetic representation, the function of the author and the status of the text. In the context of the dialectical quality of nineteenth-century French culture, caught between an obsession with the new and innovative and a paranoid sense of its own encroaching decay, the twin themes of birth and death open onto a variety of issues – literary, social, historical, artistic – which are explored, interrogated and reassessed in the essays contained in this volume

     
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    Language: English; French
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789401204866
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    Series: Faux titre ; 301
    Subjects: French literature; Death in literature; Childbirth in literature; Women in literature; Childbirth in literature; Civilization; Death in literature; French literature; Women in literature; Conference papers and proceedings; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (260 pages), illustrations
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    "The essays contained in this volume were first presented at the third annual conference of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, which took place at Queen's University Belfast in April 2005"--Acknowledgments

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  7. Death and rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia
    Author: Lee, M. Owen
    Published: 1989
    Publisher:  State Univ. of New York Pr., Albany, NY

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    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0791400166; 0791400174
    RVK Categories: FX 178305
    Series: SUNY series in classical studies
    Subjects: Pastoral poetry, Latin; Regeneration in literature; Death in literature; Rome
    Scope: XI, 140 S.
  8. Death and the idea of Mexico
    Author: Lomnitz, Claudio
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Zone Books, New York, NY

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1890951536
    RVK Categories: LC 31625
    Subjects: Death; Death in popular culture; Death in art; Death in literature
    Scope: 581 S., Ill., 23cm
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    Literaturverz. S. 531 - 552
  9. Todesphantasien
    Georg Heyms Rezeption der Lyrik Baudelaires und Rimbauds
    Author: Krüger, Eva
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  Lang, Frankfurt am Main

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    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 3631465823
    RVK Categories: GM 3696
    Series: Berliner Beiträge zur neueren deutschen Literaturgeschichte ; 18
    Subjects: Array; Array; Array; Death in literature
    Scope: 316 S.
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    Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 1992
  10. Pieśni czasu śmierci
    Studium z historii duchowości XVI - XVIII wieku
    Author: Nowicka-Jeżowa, Alina
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Wydawn. Tow. Nauk. KUL, Lublin

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    Language: Polish
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 8385291296
    RVK Categories: KF 3616
    Series: Zakład Badań nad Literaturą Religijną ; 20
    Subjects: Array; Array; Death in literature; Array; Array; Array; Array; Array
    Scope: 478 S., Ill.
  11. Death and marriage
    structural metaphors for the work of art in Joyce and Mallarmé
    Author: Carpenter, William
    Published: 1988
    Publisher:  Garland, New York, NY [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0824074831
    RVK Categories: HM 3135
    Series: Garland publications in comparative literature
    Subjects: Death in literature; Marriage in literature; Comparative literature; Comparative literature
    Scope: 237 S.
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    Literaturverz. S. 230 - 237
  12. <<The>> summons of death on the medieval and Renaissance English stage
    Author: Spinrad, Phoebe S.
    Published: 1987
    Publisher:  Ohio State Univ. Press, Columbus, Ohio

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0814204430
    RVK Categories: HG 620 ; HI 1161
    Subjects: Array; Array; Array; Civilization, Medieval, in literature; Death in literature; Array
    Scope: XII, 334 S.
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    Literaturverz. S. 317 - 329
  13. Sterbeinschriften auf wikingerzeitlichen Runensteinen
    Author: Köster, Janine
    Published: [2014]
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110349474; 9783110341980; 9783110349481
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    RVK Categories: NF 1100 ; GW 1190
    Series: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde - Ergänzungsbände ; 89
    Subjects: Deutsch; Inscriptions, Runic / Scandinavia; Runes / Scandinavia; Death in literature; Death / Social aspects / Scandinavia / History / To 1500; Vikings / Social life and customs; Viking antiquities; Runeninschrift; Sterben (Motiv); Tod (Motiv); Antiquities; Death / Social aspects; Inscriptions, Runic; Runes; Alltag, Brauchtum; Funde; Geschichte; Gesellschaft; Tod <Motiv>; Sterben <Motiv>; Runeninschrift
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii,332p.)
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    Div. Abb

    Köster investigates the subject of death and dying as depicted on Scandinavian runic stones from the Viking era. Her study calls into question our conventional understanding of the function of these inscriptions, showing that runic inscriptions were not limited to epigraphs, but were also prepared more generally for individuals who were still alive
  14. Death in Quotation Marks
    Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet
    Author: Boym, Svetlana
    Published: [1991]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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  15. Old and New
    Sundry Papers
    Author: Grandgent, Charles H.
    Published: [1920]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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  16. Sexualität und Tod
    Eine Themenverknüpfung in der englischen Schauer- und Sensationsliteratur und ihrem soziokulturellen Kontext (1764-1897)
    Author: Meier, Franz
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783484421363; 9783110914313; 9783111836843
    RVK Categories: HG 674
    Series: Buchreihe der Anglia ; 36
    Subjects: Geschichte; Death in literature; English fiction; English fiction; Gothic revival (Literature); Horror tales, English; Literature and society; Literature and society; Sensationalism in literature; Sex in literature; Gothic novel; Tod <Motiv>; Erotik <Motiv>; Englisch; Schauerliteratur; Sensationsroman
    Other subjects: Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 433 S.)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-433) and index

    Main description: Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich anhand der Themenverknüpfung "Sexualität und Tod" mit der funktional-strukturalen Interdependenz literarischer und soziokultureller Diskurse im historischen Wandel. Den Untersuchungsbereich bildet die englische Kultur vom späten 18. bis zum ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert, bzw. die englische Schauer- und Sensationsliteratur dieses Zeitraums. Analysiert werden nach einer theoretischen Grundlegung zunächst die kulturgeschichtlichen Diskurse von Sexualität und Tod in dieser Zeit und dann u.a. Texte von Walpole, Lewis, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Collins, Le Fanu, Wilde und Stoker

    Main description: The study deals with the thematic combination of 'sexuality and death' in order to explore the functional-structural relationship between literary and cultural discourses and its historical changes. The areas of investigation are English culture between the late 18th and the late 19th century as well as the gothic and sensation narratives of the time. A thorough theoretical foundation is followed first by an investigation of historical developments in the cultural discourses of sexuality and death, and then by extensive analyses of texts by Walpole, Lewis, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontk, Collins, Le Fanu, Wilde, Stoker and others

    Review text: "Meier's book impresses the reader by its broad approach, excellent structure, thorough reflections, balanced judgements, and last but not least its comprehensive documentation with a wealth of information and discussion in the footnotes."Michael Meyer in: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 4/2008
  17. Tod und Erzählen
    Wege der literarischen Moderne um 1900
    Author: Pfeiffer, Joachim
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9783484181465; 9783110922325; 9783111834047
    RVK Categories: GM 1600 ; GM 1820
    Series: Studien zur deutschen Literatur ; 146
    Subjects: Death in literature; German fiction; German fiction; Prosa; Tod <Motiv>; Erzähltechnik; Deutsch
    Other subjects: Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 244 S.)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index

    Main description: Die Arbeit setzt bei der Frage ein, warum es der Literatur im ausgehenden 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhundert möglich war, sich dem Tod verstärkt zuzuwenden, während er aus dem Öffentlichkeitsbewusstsein zunehmend verdrängt wurde. Dabei richtet sich das Erkenntnisinteresse vor allem auf die ästhetischen Verfahrensweisen, die der Literatur eine Verarbeitung der neuen Endlichkeitserfahrung erlauben. An exemplarischen Interpretationen deutschsprachiger Texte macht die Untersuchung deutlich, inwiefern die Erzählstrukturen durch die neuen Bewusstseinsstrukturen affiziert und verändert werden

    Main description: The study sets out from an inquiry into why in the late 19th and early 20th century literature turned more and more to the subject of death although this phenomenon was increasingly repressed and negated in public awareness. The bias of this inquiry is slanted towards the aesthetic procedures enabling literature to embark on this new engagement with the experience of finiteness and mortality. Interpretations of selected texts in German demonstrate the extent to which narrative structures are suffused, affected and changed by new structures of awareness
  18. Betrachtungen des Todes
    Formen und Funktionen der "meditatio mortis" in der europäischen Literatur des 17. Jahrhunderts
    Author: Wodianka, Stephanie
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen

    This comparative study places literary meditation on death in the context of the emergence of a 'meditative concept of conscience' in the early modern age. On the basis of an extensive corpus of German, French, and English sources, meditatio mortis... more

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    This comparative study places literary meditation on death in the context of the emergence of a 'meditative concept of conscience' in the early modern age. On the basis of an extensive corpus of German, French, and English sources, meditatio mortis is scrutinized for its potential in the individualization of memory. The study concentrates on the literary and poetological consequences of meditation for the textual structure. The most prominent characteristic of this is the high degree of self-reflection and the significance of the anatomical perspective, both of which leave their mark on the self-contemplation of the meditative self

     
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    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110950786; 9783111822938
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    RVK Categories: BM 8440 ; EC 5410 ; EC 5157
    DDC Categories: 800
    Series: Frühe Neuzeit ; Band 90
    Subjects: Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft; Dood; Letterkunde; Literatur; Literary Studies; Literary Studies; Literary Studies; Death in literature; European literature; Grief in literature; Literatur; Tod; Meditation
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 461 Seiten), Illustrationen
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    Dissertation, Universität Giessen,
  19. Sexualität und Tod
    eine Themenverknüpfung in der englischen Schauer- und Sensationsliteratur und ihrem soziokulturellen Kontext (1764-1897)
    Author: Meier, Franz
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen

    Main description: Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich anhand der Themenverknüpfung "Sexualität und Tod" mit der funktional-strukturalen Interdependenz literarischer und soziokultureller Diskurse im historischen Wandel. Den Untersuchungsbereich bildet die... more

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    Main description: Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich anhand der Themenverknüpfung "Sexualität und Tod" mit der funktional-strukturalen Interdependenz literarischer und soziokultureller Diskurse im historischen Wandel. Den Untersuchungsbereich bildet die englische Kultur vom späten 18. bis zum ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert, bzw. die englische Schauer- und Sensationsliteratur dieses Zeitraums. Analysiert werden nach einer theoretischen Grundlegung zunächst die kulturgeschichtlichen Diskurse von Sexualität und Tod in dieser Zeit und dann u.a. Texte von Walpole, Lewis, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Collins, Le Fanu, Wilde und Stoker Main description: The study deals with the thematic combination of 'sexuality and death' in order to explore the functional-structural relationship between literary and cultural discourses and its historical changes. The areas of investigation are English culture between the late 18th and the late 19th century as well as the gothic and sensation narratives of the time. A thorough theoretical foundation is followed first by an investigation of historical developments in the cultural discourses of sexuality and death, and then by extensive analyses of texts by Walpole, Lewis, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontk, Collins, Le Fanu, Wilde, Stoker and others Review text: "Meier's book impresses the reader by its broad approach, excellent structure, thorough reflections, balanced judgements, and last but not least its comprehensive documentation with a wealth of information and discussion in the footnotes."Michael Meyer in: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 4/2008

     
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    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110914313; 9783111836843
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    RVK Categories: HG 674
    Series: Buchreihe der ANGLIA ; 36. Band
    Subjects: Geschichte; Death in literature; English fiction; English fiction; Gothic revival (Literature); Horror tales, English; Literature and society; Literature and society; Sensationalism in literature; Sex in literature; Gothic novel; Tod <Motiv>; Erotik <Motiv>; Englisch; Schauerliteratur; Sensationsroman
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 433 Seiten)
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    Habilitationsschrift, Universität Regensburg, 1997
  20. Learning to Die in London, 1380-1540
    Author: Appleford, Amy
    Published: [2014]; © 2015
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa.

    Learning to Die in London, 1380-1540 argues that the educated awareness of death and mortality was a vital aspect of the city's civic culture, critical not only to the shaping of single lives and the management of households but also to practices of... more

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    Learning to Die in London, 1380-1540 argues that the educated awareness of death and mortality was a vital aspect of the city's civic culture, critical not only to the shaping of single lives and the management of households but also to practices of cultural memory, building of institutions, and good government of the city itself

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780812290479
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    RVK Categories: NM 9300 ; HH 4061
    Series: The Middle Ages Series
    Subjects: Politik; Psychologie; Death in literature; Death; Death; Death; Mittelenglisch; Tod <Motiv>; Literatur; Einstellung; Tod
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  21. Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama
    Author: Griffin, Andrew
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    In the decades before history was institutionalized as a scholarly discipline, historical writing was practiced variously by poets, record keepers, lawyers, sermonizers, mythologizers, and philosophers. In this welter of competing forms of historical... more

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    In the decades before history was institutionalized as a scholarly discipline, historical writing was practiced variously by poets, record keepers, lawyers, sermonizers, mythologizers, and philosophers. In this welter of competing forms of historical thought, early modern drama often operated as a site in which claims about the nature of historical change could be treated in a frequently conflicting manner. To explore this arena of competing forms of historical explanation, Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama focuses on the problem of narrative abruption in a selection of historically minded early modern plays as they rely on various strategies to make sense of biography and fatality. Arguing that narrative forms fail in the face of untimely death, Andrew Griffin shows that the disruption appears as a matter of trauma, making the untimely death both a point of narrative conflict and a social problem. Exploring the formula that early modern dramatists used to make sense of life and death, this book draws on the wider context of this period's culture of historical writing

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781487518028
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    Subjects: change; early modern drama; early modern dramatists; early modern plays; explanation; historical; matter of trauma; thought; untimely death; writing; LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance; Death in literature; English drama; English drama; History in literature; Geschichte <Motiv>; Tod <Motiv>; Englisch; Drama
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  22. Dressed to Kill
    Death and Meaning in Zaya's Desengaños
    Author: Rhodes, Elizabeth
    Published: [2018]; © 2011
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    The noble wives in María de Zayas's Desengaños suffer terrible fates: one is beheaded, another poisoned, one is cemented into a chimney, while yet another is locked into a tiny wall closet where she dies. The hallmark of Zayas's aesthetics, these... more

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    The noble wives in María de Zayas's Desengaños suffer terrible fates: one is beheaded, another poisoned, one is cemented into a chimney, while yet another is locked into a tiny wall closet where she dies. The hallmark of Zayas's aesthetics, these characters are the central reason why her fiction has increased in popularity through the ages. Yet their stories pose an apparent contradiction between the author's pro-female rhetoric and her gusto for killing model women, then beautifying their mutilated cadavers.Dressed to Kill reconciles Zayas's Desengaños with the age in which it was written, contextualizing the book in baroque poetics, the Spanish honour code, and fifteenth-century martyr saints' lives. Elizabeth Rhodes elegantly uncovers Zayas's intention to reform the Spanish nobility by displaying noble misbehaviour and its deadly consequences. Her book concludes by detailing the Desengaños' intriguing influence on the aesthetic base of Gothic literature by revealing that its authors were avid readers of Zayas

     
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    ISBN: 9781442696242
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    Series: University of Toronto Romance Series
    Subjects: DISCOUNT-B.; Death in literature; Meaning (Philosophy) in literature; Women in literature
    Other subjects: Zayas y Sotomayor, María de (1590-1650)
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  23. Dreams of the Burning Child
    Sacrificial Sons and the Father's Witness
    Author: Miller, David Lee
    Published: [2018]; © 2002
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    In Dreams of the Burning Child, David Lee Miller explores the uncanny persistence of filial sacrifice as a motif in English literature and its classical and biblical antecedents. He combines strikingly original reinterpretations of the Aeneid,... more

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    In Dreams of the Burning Child, David Lee Miller explores the uncanny persistence of filial sacrifice as a motif in English literature and its classical and biblical antecedents. He combines strikingly original reinterpretations of the Aeneid, Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, and Dombey and Son with perceptive accounts of dreams found in memoirs, poems, and psychoanalytic texts. Miller looks closely at the grisly fantasy of the sacrifice of sons as it is depicted in classical epic, early modern drama, the nineteenth-century novel, the postcolonial novel, the lyric, the funeral elegy, sacred scriptures, and psychoanalytic theory. He also draws examples from painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture into a witty and engaging discussion that ranges from the binding of Isaac to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and from questions of literary history to the dilemmas of patriarchal masculinity

     
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    ISBN: 9781501728846
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    Subjects: Child sacrifice; Death in literature; Fathers and sons in literature; Literature; Vater; Opfer <Religion, Motiv>; Sohn <Motiv>; Englisch; Sohn; Literatur
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  24. Lost Bodies
    Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death
    Author: Tanner, Laura E.
    Published: [2018]; © 2006
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    "If the dying body makes us flinch and look away, struggling not to see what we have seen, the lost body disappears from cultural view, buried along with the sensory traces of its corporeal presence."-from the IntroductionAmerican popular culture... more

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    "If the dying body makes us flinch and look away, struggling not to see what we have seen, the lost body disappears from cultural view, buried along with the sensory traces of its corporeal presence."-from the IntroductionAmerican popular culture conducts a passionate love affair with the healthy, fit, preferably beautiful body, and in recent years theories of embodiment have assumed importance in various scholarly disciplines. But what of the dying or dead body? Why do we avert our gaze, speak of it only as absence? This thoughtful and beautifully written book-illustrated with photographs by Shellburne Thurber and other remarkable images-finds a place for the dying and lost body in the material, intellectual, and imaginary spaces of contemporary American culture.Laura E. Tanner focuses her keen attention on photographs of AIDS patients and abandoned living spaces; newspaper accounts of September 11; literary works by Don DeLillo, Donald Hall, Sharon Olds, Marilynne Robinson, and others; and material objects, including the AIDS Quilt. She analyzes the way in which these representations of the body reflect current cultural assumptions, revealing how Americans read, imagine, and view the dynamics of illness and loss. The disavowal of bodily dimensions of death and grief, she asserts, deepens rather than mitigates the isolation of the dying and the bereaved. Lost Bodies will speak to anyone imperiled by the threat of loss

     
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    ISBN: 9781501730009
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    Subjects: American literature; Art, American; Death in art; Death in literature; Tod <Motiv>; Körper <Motiv>; Kunst; Literatur
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  25. Regard for the Other
    Autothanatography in Rousseau, De Quincey, Baudelaire, and Wilde
    Author: Burt, E.S.
    Published: [2009]; © 2009
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    Although much has been written on autobiography, the same cannot be said of autothanatography, the writing of one's death. This study starts from the deconstructive premise that autobiography is aporetic, not or not only a matter of a subject... more

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    Although much has been written on autobiography, the same cannot be said of autothanatography, the writing of one's death. This study starts from the deconstructive premise that autobiography is aporetic, not or not only a matter of a subject strategizing with language to produce an exemplary identity but a matter also of its responding to an exorbitant call to write its death. The I-dominated representations of particular others and of the privileged other to whom a work is addressed, must therefore be set against an alterity plaguing the I from within or shadowing it from without. This alterity makes itself known in writing as the potential of the text to carry messages that remain secret to the confessing subject. Anticipation of the potential for the confessional text to say what Augustine calls "the secret I do not know," the secret of death, engages the autothanatographical subject in a dynamic, inventive, and open-ended process of identification. The subject presented in these texts is not one that has already evolved an interior life that it seeks to reveal to others, but one that speaks to us as still in process. Through its exorbitant response, it gives intimations of an interiority and an ethical existence to come. Baudelaire emerges as a central figure for this understanding of autobiography as autothanatography through his critique of the narcissism of a certain Rousseau, his translation of De Quincey's confessions, with their vertiginously ungrounded subject-in-construction, his artistic practice of self-conscious, thorough-going doubleness, and his service to Wilde as model for an aporetic secrecy. The author discusses the interruption of narrative that must be central to the writing of one's death and addresses the I's dealings with the aporias of such structuring principles as secrecy, Levinasian hospitality, or interiorization as translation. The book makes a strong intervention in the debate over one of the most-read genres of our time

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780823238149
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General; Authors; Authors; Autobiography; Death in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Other (Philosophy) in literature; Self in literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (288 pages)
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