{"product_id":"the-final-crossing-9781433130151","title":"The Final Crossing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince ancient times, writers and poets have grappled with death, dying, grief, and mourning in their works. \u003ci\u003eThe Final Crossing: Death and Dying in Literature\u003c\/i\u003e compiles fifteen in-depth, scholarly, and original essays on death and dying in literature from around the globe and from different time periods. Written from a variety of critical perspectives, the essays target both scholars and serious students. Death and dying is an important area of study for a variety of disciplines, including psychology, psychiatry, sociology, gerontology, medical ethics, healthcare science, health law, and literary studies. \u003ci\u003eThe Final Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark compendium of academic essays on death and dying in literary texts, such as the \u003ci\u003eIliad, ?ayy ibn Yaq?an, Hamlet, The Secret Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath.\u003c\/i\u003e This collection of essays not only brings an international flavor, but also a unique angularity to the discourse on thanatology. The novelty of perspectives reflects the di\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Carol Leff: Gravesites in the Stories of Herman Charles Bosman: An Exploration of History, Memory, Ritual, Identity, and Landscape – Colin Yeo: «Mouthed Graves Will Give Thee Memory»: Burial Sites and Poetic Immortality in Renaissance Verse – Marwan A. Nader\/Myrna A. Nader: Christian and Muslim Concepts of Death and the Afterlife in Postmodern Agnostic Poetry – Heather H. Yeung: The End of Language? Representations and Effects of Death and Dying in the Fiction of Julia Kristeva and Susan Sontag – Daniela Chana: Death as an Instrument for Social Criticism in Young Italian Literature – John Pennington: The Secret Garden at the Back of the North Wind: The Life and Death Journey in Frances Hodgson Burnett and George MacDonald – Rebekah M. Fowler: How Men Grieve: A Contemporary Allegory of the Grieving Process in Sir Orfeo – Carolyn Ownbey: Haunting and Melancholia: A Reading of the Revenant in Seamus Heaney’s «Casualty» – Kelly Leavitt: Those Left Behind: The Non-Endings of Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man and Aharon Appelfeld’s The Immortal Bartfuss – Hannah Farrell: In The Driver’s Seat: Death and Isolation in Muriel Spark’s Postmodern Gothic – Claudia Desblaches: Death and Dying as Literary Devices in Brite’s Exquisite Corpse and Palahniuk’s Damned – Lori F. Smurthwaite: «Stories Can Save Us»: Rewriting Death in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried – James Brown: Tears and the Art of – John J. Han: Quick and Long-Lasting: Death and Dying in John Steinbeck’s Fiction – Debra L. Cumberland: Death-Defying Women: Art and Transcendence in Cather.","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039586320727,"sku":"9781433130151","price":65.11,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433130151.jpg?v=1750944178","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-final-crossing-9781433130151","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}