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1	Cause of Death: A Writer's Guide to Death, Murder, and Forensic Medicine more books like this by Keith D Wilson add to wishlist Offers detailed descriptions of what happens to a body from trauma to burial, how autopsies are conducted, the paperwork involved in a death, and the laws that govern how bodies must be handled and buried. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| first editions
2	Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity more books like this by Sharon Patricia Holland, Sharon Patriciaholland, Donald E Pease (Editor) add to wishlist "Raising the Dead" is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through the space of death gives us, as cultural readers, a ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Love and death in the American novel more books like this by Leslie A. Fiedler add to wishlist An examination of American literature and the American personality from the colonial period to the present day. Fieldler maintains that American literature is largely incapable of dealing with adult sexuality and is pathologically obsessed with death. see all copies from $2.02! new only from $10.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Bequest & Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death more books like this by Professor Nancy K Miller (Editor) add to wishlist Nancy Miller examines her own parents' deaths as well as how parental death is treated in other writers' memoirs. see all copies from $4.39! new only from $4.39! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Poetry as Epitaph: Representation and Poetic Language more books like this by Karen Mills-Courts add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.95! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Faulkner's as I Lay Dying more books like this by James L Roberts, PH.D. add to wishlist By telling the story through the voices of several narrators, Faulkner provided deep observations of a Southern family's move to a new town and life. The book is not only compelling because of the story, but also because of the depth and richness of the characters. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
7	Desire, Discord and Death: Approaches to Near Eastern Myth more books like this by Neal H Walls (Editor) add to wishlist The three essays presented in this volume reveal the symbolic complexity and poetic visions of ancient Near Eastern mythology. The author explores the interrelated themes of erotic desire, divine conflict and death's realm in selected ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian mythological narratives using contemporary methods of literary analysis. Topics ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
8	City of Dreadful Night: A Tale of Horror and the Macabre in India more books like this by Lee Siegel add to wishlist This unorthodox book is more than a story; it blends scholarship, fantasy, travelogue, and autobiography--fusing and overlapping historical accounts and newscasts, literary texts and films, dreams and nocturnal tales. Siegel explores the relation of real terror to horror fiction and contemplates the ways that fear and disgust become thrilling ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.45! \| first editions
9	Beyond Consolation: Death, Sexuality, and the Changing Shapes of Elegy more books like this by Melissa F Zeiger add to wishlist Using as her starting point the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, Melissa F. Zeiger examines modern transformations of poetic elegy, particularly as they reflect historical changes in the politics of gender and sexuality. Although her focus is primarily on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry, the scope of her investigation is grand: from John ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.63!
10	Beckett's Dying Words: The Clarendon Lectures 1990 more books like this by Christopher Ricks add to wishlist Most people most of the time want to live for ever. But there is another truth - the longing for oblivion. With pain, wit and humour, the art of Samuel Beckett variously embodies this truth, this ancient-enduring belief that it is better to be dead than alive, best of all never to have been born. Beckett is the supreme writer of an age which has ... see all copies from $13.35! new only from $23.09! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise more books like this by Alan Warren Friedman add to wishlist This collection of papers by researchers in the field addresses the area of second language academic listening. The first section provides an overview of research relevant to comprehension. The second analyzes aspects of the cognitive processes involved. It will be of interest to teachers of English for Specific Purposes, and to those students, ... see all copies from $13.01! new only from $33.66! \| SVS
12	Faulkner's as I Lay Dying more books like this by Andre Bleikasten add to wishlist see all copies from $3.55!
13 view cover	Ghostwriting Modernism more books like this by Helen Sword add to wishlist The oeuvres of towering 20th-century literary figures such as James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, H.D., James Merrill, and Sylvia Plath included elements of spiritualism and the occult. This study illuminates these aspects and assess how spiritualism in 19th-century literary culture influenced modernism and its heirs. see all copies from $3.27! new only from $3.27!
14 view cover	Andre Malraux and the Metamorphosis of Death more books like this by Professor T Jefferson Kline add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $83.21! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy more books like this by Rush Rehm add to wishlist The link between weddings and death - as found in dramas ranging from "Romeo and Juliet" to Lorca's "Blood Wedding" - plays a central role in the action of many Greek tragedies. Female characters such as Cassandra, Antigone and Helen enact and refer to significant parts of wedding and funeral rites, but often in a twisted fashion. This study ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $18.00! \| SVS
16 view cover	Last Words: Variations on a Theme in Cultural History more books like this by Karl S Guthke add to wishlist Whether Goethe actually cried "More light!" on his deathbed, or whether Conrad Hilton checked out of this world after uttering "Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub", last words, regardless of authenticity, have long captured the imagination of Western society. In this investigation based on factual accounts, anecdotes, literary works ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.48! \| first editions
17 view cover	So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death more books like this by Harold Aspiz add to wishlist Walt Whitman is unquestionably a great poet of the joys of living. But as Harold Aspiz demonstrates in this study, concerns with death and dying define Whitman's career as a thinker, a poet, and a person. Through a close reading of Leaves of Grass, its constituent poems, particularly "Song of Myself," and Whitman's prose and letters, Aspiz charts ... see all copies from $16.13! new only from $16.13! \| first editions
18	Recalcitrance, Faulkner, and the Professors: A Critical Fiction more books like this by Austin M Wright add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Breathless: Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and the Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia more books like this by Allen S Weiss add to wishlist Explores how early radio and sound recording influenced modernist literature. see all copies from $2.73! new only from $3.98! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Imagining the End of Life in Post-Enlightenment Poetry: Voices Against the Void more books like this by David J Gordon add to wishlist David Gordon studies the changing conception of one's own death by examining the work of some of the most important poets of the last two centuries. The turn from Enlightenment to Romanticism introduced a new conception of individual death that we would now call existential. As the power of religion waned and with it the consoling belief in an ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $63.76! \| first editions
21 view cover	Death, the One and the Art of Theatre more books like this by Howard Barker add to wishlist Howard Barker is an internationally renowned playwright whose works are regularly produced throughout Europe and the US. He is widely known for his controversial and satirical explorations into contemporary tragedy, and his anti-Brechtian focus on the irrational and the catastrophic. He is often credited as a major influence on the generation of ... see all copies from $21.95! new only from $27.31!
22 view cover	Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity more books like this by Christopher Peterson add to wishlist The refusal to recognize kinship relations among slaves, interracial couples, and same-sex partners is steeped in historical and cultural taboos. In Kindred Specters," Christopher Peterson explores the ways in which non-normative relationships bear the stigma of death that American culture vehemently denies. Probing Derrida's notion of ... see all copies from $14.05! new only from $17.95! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Death and Representation more books like this by Professor Elisabeth Bronfen (Editor), Sarah W Goodwin (Editor), Ms. Elizabeth Bronfen (Editor) add to wishlist Death is a subject of increasing interest in virtually all academic disciplines, yet there is surprisingly little theoretical work on the representation of death in literary contexts. "Death and Representation" offers a collection of international and interdisciplinary essays, rich in cultural perspectives but sharing a relatively common ... see all copies from $5.29! new only from $5.29! \| SVS
24 view cover	Dead Lovers: Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern Europe more books like this by Dr. Basil Dufallo (Editor), Dr. Peggy McCracken (Editor) add to wishlist "Dead Lovers" explores the complex attachments to the figure of the dead lover in Western literature, art, and other forms of cultural expression from classical antiquity through the Middle Ages and into the early modern period. By reflecting on the study of dead lovers, the collection traces the development of themes and claims about our own ... see all copies from $5.80! new only from $30.00! \| first editions
25 view cover	The Absent One: Mourning Ritual, Tragedy, and the Performance of Ambivalence more books like this by Susan Letzler Cole add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions

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