Title: Discourses on the edges of life /
Authors: Salvador, Vicent,; Kotátková, Adéla,; Clemente, Ignasi,
Year: 2020
Subjects: Death; Death Social aspects; Communication in medicine; Death in literature; Discourse analysis; Discourse analysis, Literary; 17.63.; 17.61.; Communication in medicine; Death; Death in literature; Death Social aspects; Discourse analysis; Discourse analysis, Literary; Diskursanalyse; Literatur; Tod
Abstract: "Death inhabits our collective imaginary, even though sometimes, like a squatter, it hides discretely in order to avoid conflicts. It is undoubtedly a multi-faceted subject of study, which requires consideration from an interdisciplinary perspective. This book deals with this phenomenon, and more specifically with the discourses that surround -and construct our perspectives and understanding of- death and dying. Of course, the present volume does not attempt to be exhaustive, and considers the subject from several standpoints, including linguistics, anthropology, history of medicine, and importantly, literary studies. It combines various points of view and different methodologies of knowledge, in the hope that they come together to constitute a written dialogue -or more precisely, a polylogue. The ordering of the texts in this volume provides readers with an itinerary that begins with more general approaches, such as a historical presentation of the medicalisation of death and an in-depth reflection on the best way to die, and ends with studies of specific literary works from different periods. The itinerary that this book provides is framed by a discourse analysis-based overview that explores how different approaches to death and dying intersect and complement each other in an interdisciplinary endeavour. This analysis focuses on literary and non-literary genres in order to shed some new light on a topic that is inexhaustible because of its sociocultural relevance"--
Contents: Presentation : discourses on death and dying / Vicent Salvador, Adéla Koťátková and Ignasi Clemente -- Death : from myth to the laboratory / Josep L. Barona -- Moral ortothanasia and the right to die : a multinarrative approach / Fernando Lolas Stepke -- In the wake of loss : grief, mourning and bereavement / Beatriz Gil-Juliá and Rafael Ballester-Arnal -- The gift of continuing to live in the body of someone else : the discourse on organ transplants in Spanish press / Antonio M. Bañón Hernández -- Giving meaning to illness and death : end-of-life approaches in online stories by adolescents and young adults with cancer / Martí Domínguez and Lucía Sapiña -- Religion, collusion, and "fighting" : pediatric cancer end-of-life discourses in Catalonia, Spain / Ignasi Clemente -- Rhetoric of death in clinical case reports and clinical tales / Adéla Koťátková -- 'Letters to Lucilius' and death : a self-help book written by Seneca / David Pujante -- Montaigne, the essay and the end of life / John Skelton -- Memory, mothers and post-Freudian melancholia in Mercè Rodoreda's 'Night and fog' / Montserrat Lunati i Maruny -- The scenography of death in contemporary poetry : the case of Vicent Andrés Estellés / Vicent Salvador and Irene Mira -- Beyond the limits of death : consciousness without bodies and simulacra of human beings in science fiction / Sara Molpeceres.