ABSTRACT
Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives try to push the boundaries of what can be said about death.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|1 pages
The Uncrossable Border
part II|1 pages
Trajectories
chapter 5|14 pages
“She is the God of Calvin, she sees the beginning and the end”
Narrating Life and Death in the Fiction of Muriel Spark
chapter 6|16 pages
Talking to the Dead
Narrative Closure and the Political Unconscious in Neil Jordan’s Fiction
part III|1 pages
Aesthetic Crossings
chapter 11|13 pages
Murder Amidst the Chocolates
Martin McDonagh’s Multifaceted Uses of Death in In Bruges
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