Bloom's Literary Themes: Death and Dying
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The great literary themes reappear continually throughout the world's literature. Bloom's Literary Themes is a new series that examines these themes as they function in classic literary works, from the Bible to the novels of Toni Morrison and Philip Roth.
Series Introduction Harold Bloom Themes Metaphors xiVolume Introduction Harold Bloom xvAll Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 1"Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front" Merritt Moseley"Because I could not stop for Death" Emily Dickinson 13"Toward Eternity: The Final Journey in Emily Dickinson's 'Because I could not stop for Death'" Robert C. EvansBeloved Toni Morrison 21"Death and Dying in Beloved" Deborah JamesCatch-22 Joseph Heller 31"Joseph Heller's Catch-22" Merritt MoseleyChronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel Garcia Marquez 43"More Deaths Than One: Chronicle of a Death Foretold" William Gass"The Dead" James Joyce 47"The Dead" Bernard BenstockDeath Be Not Proud John Gunther 59"Death Be Not Proud: Children, Families and Cancer in Postwar America" Gretchen KruegerA Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway 73"Hemingway's Uncanny Beginnings" David M. WyattHeart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 81"Lying as Dying in Heart of Darkness" Garrett StewartIn Cold Blood Truman Capote 105"Faith and Tragedy in In Cold Blood" John McClainIn Memoriam Alfred Lord Tennyson 117"The Way of the Soul" A.C. Bradley"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" Katherine Anne Porter 125"A Coming of Death Story: Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall'" John McClainKing Lear William Shakespeare 135"King Lear and the Psychology of Dying" Susan SnyderLord of the Flies William Golding 155"Lord of the Flies: Fable, Myth, and Fiction" Arnold JohnstonNight Elie Wiesel 171"Elie Wiesel's Night and Dying in the Present Tense" Kitty MilletOresteia Aeschylus 183"Tragedy's BloodyBorders: The Oresteia" Louise CowanParadise Lost John Miltion 197"The Theme of Death in Paradise Lost" John ErskineA Separate Peace John Knowles 205"The World of War in A Separate Peace" Jean HammSlaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 215"Not Facing Death in Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five: Escapism and Fatalism in the Face of War and Trauma" Jeff Williams"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" Robert Frost 225"The 'Death Wish'in 'Stopping by Woods'" James ArmstrongAcknowledgements 231Index 233
