Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
DANIEL K. JERNIGAN, WALTER WADIAK, and W. MICHELLE WANG
PART I
The Uncrossable Border
1 Photography and First-Person Death: Derrida, Barthes, Poe
KEVIN RIORDAN
2 "This memoryall men may have in mynd": Everyman and the Work of Mourning
WALTER WADIAK
3 From Nothing to Never? Facing Death in King Lear
MICHAEL NEILL
4 "Is there no danger in counterfeiting death?": Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid
DANIEL K. JERNIGAN
PART II
Trajectories
5 "She is the God of Calvin, she sees the beginning and the end": Narrating Life and Death in the Fiction of Muriel Spark
JOSEPH H. O’MEALY
6 Talking to the Dead: Narrative Closure and the Political Unconscious in Neil Jordan’s Fiction
KEITH HOPPER
7 Samuel Johnson and the Grammar of Death
LAURA DAVIES
8 Death and Romance in Sir Orfeo
ELIZABETH ALLEN
PART III
Aesthetic Crossings
9 Death and the Maidens: John Banville’s Ekphrastic Storyworlds
NEIL MURPHY
10 Blood Meridian, the Sublime, and Aesthetic Narrativizations of Death
W. MICHELLE WANG
11 Murder Amidst the Chocolates: Martin McDonagh’s Multifaceted Uses of Death in In Bruges
WILLIAM C. BOLES
12 The Ruined Voice in Tom Murphy’s Bailegangaire
CHERYL JULIA LEE
Index