Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise

Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise

Author: Alan Warren Friedman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-01-26

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780521442619

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This 1995 book analyses of the semiotics of death and dying in twentieth-century fiction, history and culture.


The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction

The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction

Author: Michihiro Ama

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2021-02-01

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1438481438

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The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction is the first book to treat the literary practices of certain major modern Japanese writers as Buddhist practices, and to read their work as Buddhist literature. Its distinctive contribution is its focus on modern literature and, importantly, modern Buddhism, which Michihiro Ama presents both as existing in continuity with the historical Buddhist tradition and as having unique features of its own. Ama corrects the dominant perception in which the Christian practice of confession has been accepted as the primary informing source of modern Japanese prose literature, arguing instead that the practice has always been a part of Shin Buddhist culture. Focusing on personal fiction, this volume explores the works of literary figures and Buddhist priests who, challenged by the modern development of Japan, turned to Buddhism in a variety of ways and used literature as a vehicle for transforming their sense of selfhood. Writers discussed include Natsume Sōseki, Tayama Katai, Shiga Naoya, Kiyozawa Manshi, and Akegarasu Haya. By bringing Buddhism out of the shadows of early twentieth-century Japanese literature and elucidating its presence in both individual authors' lives and the genre of autobiographical fiction, The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction demonstrates a more nuanced understanding of the role of Buddhism in the development of Japanese modernity.


The Enterprise Of Death

The Enterprise Of Death

Author: Jesse Bullington

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2011-03-03

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0748118802

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As the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance Europe in a moral haze, a young African slave finds herself the unwilling apprentice of an ancient necromancer. Unfortunately, quitting his company proves even more hazardous than remaining his pupil when she is afflicted with a terrible curse. Yet salvation may lie in a mysterious tome her tutor has hidden somewhere on the war-torn continent. She sets out on a seemingly impossible journey to find the book, never suspecting her fate is tied to three strangers: the artist Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, the alchemist Dr Paracelsus and a gun-slinging Dutch mercenary. As Manuel paints her macabre story on canvas, plank and church wall, the apprentice becomes increasingly aware of the great dangers that surround her. She realises she must revisit the fell necromancy of her childhood - or death will be the least of her concerns.


Death-Facing Ecology in Contemporary British and North American Environmental Crisis Fiction

Death-Facing Ecology in Contemporary British and North American Environmental Crisis Fiction

Author: Louise Squire

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-12-05

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1351396501

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Recent years have seen a burgeoning of novels that respond to the environmental issues we currently face. Among these, Louise Squire defines environmental crisis fiction as concerned with a range of environmental issues and with the human subject as a catalyst for these issues. She argues that this fiction is characterized by a thematic use of "death," through which it explores a "crisis" of both environment and self. Squire refers to this emergent thematic device as "death-facing ecology". This device enables this fiction to engage with a range of theoretical ideas and with popular notions of death and the human condition as cultural phenomena of the modern West. In doing so, this fiction invites its readers to consider how humanity might begin to respond to the crisis.


Commemorative Modernisms

Commemorative Modernisms

Author: Alice Kelly

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2020-07-06

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1474459927

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This book provides the first sustained study of women's literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlies British and American literary modernism.


Death, Men, and Modernism

Death, Men, and Modernism

Author: Ariela Freedman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-08

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1135383723

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Death, Men and Modernism argues that the figure of the dead man becomes a locus of attention and a symptom of crisis in British writing of the early to mid-twentieth century. While Victorian writers used dying women to dramatize aesthetic, structural, and historical concerns, modernist novelists turned to the figure of the dying man to exemplify concerns about both masculinity and modernity. Along with their representations of death, these novelists developed new narrative techniques to make the trauma they depicted palpable. Contrary to modernist genealogies, the emergence of the figure of the dead man in texts as early as Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure suggests that World War I intensified-but did not cause-these anxieties. This book elaborates a nodal point which links death, masculinity, and modernity long before the events of World War I.


Death in modern theatre

Death in modern theatre

Author: Adrian Curtin

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2019-02-15

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1526124726

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This book analyses representations of death and dying in modern Western theatre from the late nineteenth century onward, examining how and why historically informed conceptions of mortality are dramatized and staged.


From Modernist Entombment to Postmodernist Exhumation

From Modernist Entombment to Postmodernist Exhumation

Author: Lisa K. Perdigao

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1317132076

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How fictional representations of dead bodies develop over the twentieth century is the central concern of Lisa K. Perdigao's study of American writers. Arguing that the crisis of bodily representation can be traced in the move from modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation, Perdigao considers how works by writers from F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, and Richard Wright to Jody Shields, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Jeffrey Eugenides reflect changing attitudes about dying, death, and mourning. For example, while modernist writers direct their plots toward a transformation of the dead body by way of metaphor, postmodernist writers exhume the transformed body, reasserting its materiality. Rather than viewing these tropes in oppositional terms, Perdigao examines the implications for narrative of the authors' apparently contradictory attempts to recover meaning at the site of loss. She argues that entombment and exhumation are complementary drives that speak to the tension between the desire to bury the dead and the need to remember, indicating shifts in critical discussions about the body and about the function of aesthetics in relation to materialized violence and loss.


Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel

Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel

Author: J. Zigarovich

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-08-06

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1137007036

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This book asks why Brontë, Dickens, and Collins saw the narrative act as a series of textual murders and resurrections? Drawing on theorists such as Derrida, Blanchot, and de Man, Zigarovich maintains that narrating death was important to the understanding of absence, separation, and displacement in an industrial and destabilized culture.