{"product_id":"death-and-garden-narratives-in-literature-art-and-film-song-of-death-in-paradise-9781793625885","title":"Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeath 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Death in an English Garden: Agential Realism and the Nature of Arthur Machen’s “Panic Terror”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdrian Tait\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: The Death of the Profound Natural Aesthetics in the Garden in Ernest Hemingway’s “The End of Something”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZennure Köseman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: The Season before Death: Exile and Memory in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Venzo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Death and Psychogeography in Agatha Christie’s Detective Stories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeryal Cubukcu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: My Home is my Castle, my Garden your Grave: The Private Garden as Graveyard in Selected Crime Novels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSabine Planka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Gardens of the Undead: Graveyards and Tombs in the Harry Potter Series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiriam Strieder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Garden or Graveyard? “The Contemplation of Death” in Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little Sparta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEkaterina Kochetkova\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: The Dialectic of Life and Death in the ‘Garden Verses’ of the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilip van der Merwe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Nationalized Landscape and the Cult of the Dead at the Bückeberg (1933 – 1937)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrances Livings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: Dying and Death in an Octopus’s Garden: On the Visualization of Destructive Moments in Aquatic Film Images\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsabelle Schwarz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: Death and Garden Narratives in Superhero Comics – Perspectives on Poison Ivy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicolas Gaspers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: Wilderness Garden: Death, Landscape and the Australian Colonial Sublime\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarguerite Gibson","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042652848471,"sku":"9781793625885","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/death-and-garden-narratives-in-literature-art-and-film-song-of-death-in-paradise-9781793625885","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}