Death and Representation (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society Series)
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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 unique collection of international and interdisciplinary essays, rich in cultural perspectives but sharing a relatively common vocabulary. It provides models for a number of interrelated approaches — including psychoanalytic, feminist, and historical — with essays by prominent and promising scholars. Contributors are Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Regina Barreca, Elisabeth Bronfen, Carol Christ, Sander Gilman, Sarah Webster Goodwin, Margaret Higonnet, Regina Janes, Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Ronald Schleifer, Charles Segal, and Garrett Stewart.BooknewsScholars from many disciplines explore how death is represented in literature and painting. The topics include Victorian art and poetry, Voodoo, women and war, Euripides, and India. Most of the 13 essays were presented at a November 1988 colloquium at the Harvard Center for Literary and Cultural Studies. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
PrefaceIntroduction3IReading Death: Sign, Psyche, TextTouching Death29A Valediction For Bidding Mourning: Death and the Narratee in Bronte's Villette51Lacan, the Death Drive, and the Dream of the Burning Child80Risky Resemblances: On Repetition, Mourning, and Representation103IIDeath and GenderPainting the Dead: Portraiture and Necrophilia in Victorian Art and Poetry133Romanticism and the Ghost of Prostitution: Freud, Maria, and "Alice Fell"152Writing as Voodoo: Sorcery, Hysteria, and Art174Women in the Forbidden Zone: War, Women, and Death192IIIHistory, Power, IdeologyEuripides' Alcestis: How to Die a Normal Death in Greek Tragedy213Beheadings242"Who Kills Whores?" "I Do," Says Jack: Race and Gender in Victorian London263Representing Sati: Continuities and Discontinuities285Afterword: Walter Benjamin and the Crisis of Representation: Multiplicity, Meaning, and Athematic Death312Notes on Contributors335
