The Routledge companion to death and literature The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale Catherine Belling Ronald Schleifer Helen Swift and Ira Nadel as well as the work of a generation of younger scholars from around the globe who bring valuable transnational insights Traversing the ontological divide. The final frontier : science fictions of death Brian McHale Still I danced : performing death in Fords The broken heart Donovan Sherman Death and the margins of theatre in Luigi Pirandello Daniel Jernigan Forbidden mental fruit Dead narrators and characters from medieval to postmodernist narratives Jan Alber Literature and the afterlife Alice Bennett The novel as heartbeat : the dead narrator in Mike McCormacks Solar bones Neil Murphy Dead man and woman talking : narratives from beyond the grave Philippe Carrard The view from upstream : authority and projection in Fontenelles Nouveaux dialogues des morts Jessica Goodman Genres. Big questions : re visioning and re scripting death narratives in childrens literature Lesley Clement In the U bend with Moaning Myrtle : thinking about death in YA literature Karen Coats Death and mourning in graphic narrative José Alaniz Death and documentaries : heuristics for the real in an age of simulation Benjamin Bennett Carpenter Death and the fanciulla Reed Way Dasenbrock Death literary form and affective comprehension : primary emotions and the neurological basis of genre Ronald Schleifer Site Space and Spatiality. Ecocide and the Anthropocene : death and the environment Flore Coulouma A Disney death : Coco Black Panther and the limits of the afterlife Stacy Thompson Suicide in the early modern elegiac tradition Kelly McGuire Institutions and elegies : viewing the dead in W. B. Yeats and John Wieners Barry Sheils & Julie Walsh Death after long silence : auditing Agambens metaphysics of negativity in Yeatss lyric Samuel Caleb Wee The spatialization of death in the novels of Virginia Woolf Ian Tan Memento mori : memory death and posterity in Singapores poetry Jen Crawford Rituals memorials and epitaphs. Death and the dead in verse funerary epigrams of Ancient Greece Arianna Gullo Fictional will Helen Swift Monumentalism death and genre in Shakespeare John Tangney Death and gothic romanticism : dilating in upon the graveyard meditating among the tombs Carol Margaret Davison Death literature and the Victorian era Jolene Zigarovich The aura of the phonographic relic : hearing the voices of the dead Angela Frattarola Anecdotal death : Samuel Johnsons Lives of the English poets Laura Davies Biography : life after death Ira Nade Living with death : writing mourning and consolation. An immense expenditure of energy come to nothing : philosophy literature and death in Peter Weiss Abschied von den Eltern Christopher Hamilton Paradox death and the divine Jamie Lin Inner seeing and death anxiety in Aidan Higginss Blind Mans Bluff and other life writing Lara OMuirithe Autothanatography and contemporary poetry Ivan Callus When time stops : death and autobiography in contemporary personal narratives Rosalía Baena Grief made her insubstantial to herself : illness aging and death in a. s. byatts little black book of stories Graham Matthews Historical engagements. On the corpse of a loved one in the era of brain death : bioethics and fictions Catherine Belling Death to the music of time : reticence in Anthony Powells mediated narratives of death Catherine Hoffmann Death and Chinese war television dramas: (re)configuring ethical judgments in The disguiser W. Michelle Wang Where do the disappeared go Writing the genocide in East Timor Kit Ying Lye Doubtfull drede : dying at the end of the Middle Ages Walter Wadiak Urbanization ambiguity and social death in Charles Brockden Browns Arthur Mervyn Wanlin Li Coda Julian Gough.