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Book SynopsisDeath and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film: Song of Death in Paradise explores the combination of two motifs, death and gardens, to show how the two subjects are intertwined and used in various media and cultural contexts. Using cultural, literary, film, and art history theories, the contributors analyze various death and garden sceneries in literary works by Arthur Machen, Agatha Christie, J.K. Rowling, as well as in superhero comics, films, and cultural and art contexts such as Ian Hamilton Finley's “Little Sparta,” the poetic verses from the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden in South Africa, and the Australian wilderness.
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Death in an English Garden: Agential Realism and the Nature of Arthur Machen’s “Panic Terror”
Adrian Tait
Chapter 2: The Death of the Profound Natural Aesthetics in the Garden in Ernest Hemingway’s “The End of Something”
Zennure Köseman
Chapter 3: The Season before Death: Exile and Memory in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Paul Venzo
Chapter 4: Death and Psychogeography in Agatha Christie’s Detective Stories
Feryal Cubukcu
Chapter 5: My Home is my Castle, my Garden your Grave: The Private Garden as Graveyard in Selected Crime Novels
Sabine Planka
Chapter 6: Gardens of the Undead: Graveyards and Tombs in the Harry Potter Series
Miriam Strieder
Chapter 7: Garden or Graveyard? “The Contemplation of Death” in Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little Sparta
Ekaterina Kochetkova
Chapter 8: The Dialectic of Life and Death in the ‘Garden Verses’ of the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden
Philip van der Merwe
Chapter 9: Nationalized Landscape and the Cult of the Dead at the Bückeberg (1933 – 1937)
Frances Livings
Chapter 10: Dying and Death in an Octopus’s Garden: On the Visualization of Destructive Moments in Aquatic Film Images
Isabelle Schwarz
Chapter 11: Death and Garden Narratives in Superhero Comics – Perspectives on Poison Ivy
Nicolas Gaspers
Chapter 12: Wilderness Garden: Death, Landscape and the Australian Colonial Sublime
Marguerite Gibson
