Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise

Name: Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise
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ISBN: 9780521442619

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Author: Alan Warren Friedman

ISBN-10: 0521442613

ISBN-13: 9780521442619

Category: General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism

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Analysis of the semiotics of death and dying in twentieth-century fiction, history and culture.

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction11Fictional death and the modernist enterprise52Climactic death313The ars moriendi474Dying in bed715Artifices of mortality876Funerals and stories1177Life after life1418Survivors of apocalypse1659E.M. Forster18610Virginia Woolf20711Late modernism: Graham Greene23012Late modernism: Lawrence Durrell25013Postmodernism: history, chaos, and death266Notes283Bibliography305Index329