Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction [electronic resource] /
Bennett, Alice.author.
Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich vein of imagined afterlives, from the temporal experiments of Martin Amis's Time's Arrow to narration from heaven in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Afterlife now -- Dead endings: making meaning from the afterlife -- Killing time: narrating eternity -- After effects: purgatory, prolepsis and the past tense -- Plotting murder: genre, plot and the dead narrator -- Ghostwords: mind-reading and the dead narrator -- Death writing: deixis of person and the dead narrator -- Here, there and hereafter: fictional worlds and the afterlife -- After life writing.
Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich vein of imagined afterlives, from the temporal experiments of Martin Amis's Time's Arrow to narration from heaven in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones .
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Fiction.
British literature.
America—Literatures.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.
North American Literature.