Narrating Death

<p>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.</p> <p></p><p>List of Contributors</p><p></p><p>Introduction</p><p></p><p> DANIEL K. JERNIGAN, WALTER WADIAK, and W. MICHELLE WANG</p><p></p><p>PART I</p><p></p><p>The Uncrossable Border</p><p></p><p><strong>1</strong> Photography and First-Person Death: Derrida, Barthes, Poe</p><p></p><p> KEVIN RIORDAN</p><p></p><p><strong>2</strong> "This memoryall men may have in mynd": <i>Everyman</i> and the Work of Mourning</p><p></p><p> WALTER WADIAK</p><p></p><p><strong>3 </strong>From Nothing to Never? Facing Death in <i>King Lear</i></p><p></p><p><em> </em>MICHAEL NEILL</p><p></p><p><strong>4 </strong>"Is there no danger in counterfeiting death?": Molière’s <i>The Imaginary Invalid</i></p><p></p><p> DANIEL K. JERNIGAN</p><p></p><p><b>PART II</b></p><p></p><p>Trajectories</p><p></p><p><strong>5</strong> "She is the God of Calvin, she sees the beginning and the end": Narrating Life and Death in the Fiction of Muriel Spark</p><p></p><p> JOSEPH H. O’MEALY</p><p></p><p><strong>6 </strong>Talking to the Dead: Narrative Closure and the Political Unconscious in Neil Jordan’s Fiction</p><p></p><p> KEITH HOPPER</p><p></p><p><strong>7 </strong>Samuel Johnson and the Grammar of Death</p><p></p><p> LAURA DAVIES</p><p></p><p><strong>8 </strong>Death and Romance in <i>Sir Orfeo</i></p><p></p><p> ELIZABETH ALLEN</p><p></p><p>PART III</p><p></p><p>Aesthetic Crossings</p><p></p><p><strong>9 </strong>Death and the Maidens: John Banville’s Ekphrastic Storyworlds</p><p></p><p> NEIL MURPHY</p><p></p><p><strong>10 </strong><em>Blood Meridian</em>, the Sublime, and Aesthetic Narrativizations of Death</p><p></p><p> W. MICHELLE WANG</p><p></p><p><strong>11 </strong>Murder Amidst the Chocolates: Martin McDonagh’s Multifaceted Uses of Death in <i>In Bruges</i></p><p></p><p> WILLIAM C. BOLES</p><p></p><p><strong>12 </strong>The Ruined Voice in Tom Murphy’s <i>Bailegangaire</i></p><p></p><p> CHERYL JULIA LEE</p><p></p><p>Index</p>