Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction

Life After Death
2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-36424-0
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 422 g

Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich vein of imagined afterlives, from the temporal experiments of Martin Amis's Time's Arrow to narration from heaven in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bennett, Alice

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Afterlife Now Dead Endings: Making Meaning from the Afterlife Killing Time: Narrating Eternity After Effects: Purgatory, Prolepsis and the Past Tense Plotting Murder: Genre, Plot and the Dead Narrator Ghostwords: Mind-Reading and the Dead Narrator Death Writing: Deixis of Person and the Dead Narrator Here, There and Hereafter: Fictional Worlds and the Afterlife After Life Writing Appendix: Chronology of Primary Texts Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

ALICE BENNETT Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at Liverpool Hope University, UK. She taught modern literature and theory at Durham University, UK, where she also completed her PhD.