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. Encompassing a diverse range
of mediums and genres - including biography and autobiography,
documentary, drama, elegy, film, the novel and graphic novel,
opera, picturebooks, poetry, television, and more - the
contributors offer a dynamic mix of approaches that range from
expansive perspectives on particular periods and genres to extended
analyses of select case studies. Essays are included from every
major Western period, including Classical, Middle Ages,
Renaissance, and so on, right up to the contemporary. This
collection provides a telling demonstration of the myriad ways that
humanity has learned to live with the inevitability of death, where
"live with" itself might mean any number of things: from consoling,
to memorializing, to rationalizing, to fending off, to evading,
and, perhaps most compellingly of all, to escaping. Engagingly
written and drawing on examples from around the world, this volume
is indispensable to both students and scholars working in the
fields of medical humanities, thanatography (death studies), life
writing, Victorian studies, modernist studies, narrative,
contemporary fiction, popular culture, and more.
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