Mortality and imagination : the life of the dead in medieval English literature
- Title
- Mortality and imagination : the life of the dead in medieval English literature / by Kenneth Rooney.
- Published by
- Turnhout : Brepols, ©2011.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- x, 304 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This volume is devoted to the use and representation of the dead in English medieval writing. The book is a history of the literary 'life' of the dead - in their narrative, aesthetic, and ideological formulation - a theme which up to now has been explored only fragmentarily, available only in studies of particular genres.
- Series statement
- Disputatio ; v. 12
- Uniform title
- Disputatio (Turnhout, Belgium) ; v. 12.
- Alternative title
- Life of the dead in medieval English literature
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Contents
- Introduction: language tradition and the birth of the dead -- 1. Vile bodies the cultural life of the corpse -- 2. The progress of the dead from body to revenant -- 3. Farewell to the flesh disembodying the dead -- 4. Grave concerns the complaint of the buried body -- 5. Romancing the Macabre the three dead and their legacy -- 6. Death apostrophe embodying death -- 7. Dancing with death the danse macabre -- Conclusion (Epitaph) a handful of dust.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-295) and index.