Mortality and imagination : the life of the dead in medieval English literature

Title
  1. Mortality and imagination : the life of the dead in medieval English literature / by Kenneth Rooney.
Published by
  1. Turnhout : Brepols, ©2011.
Author
  1. Rooney, Kenneth.

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Description
  1. x, 304 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Disputatio ; v. 12
Uniform title
  1. Disputatio (Turnhout, Belgium) ; v. 12.
Alternative title
  1. Life of the dead in medieval English literature
Subject
  1. 1100-1500
  2. Dead in literature
  3. Immortality in literature
  4. Horror in literature
  5. English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
  6. English literature > Middle English
  7. Literatur
  8. Mittelenglisch
  9. Toter Motiv
  10. Tod
  11. Unsterblichkeit
  12. Death in literature
  13. Middle English literature > 1100-1500
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. 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
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-295) and index.