Death and representation
By: edited by Sarah Webster Goodwin and Elisabeth Bronfen.
Contributors: Goodwin, Sarah McKim Webster, 1953-; Bronfen, Elisabeth.
Series: Parallax; Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Death in literature -- Congresses.; Mimesis in literature -- Congresses.; Women in literature -- Congresses.; Literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Chiefly a collection of essays originally presented at a colloquium held Nov. 1988 at the Harvard Center for Literary and Cultural Studies.
Table of contents: title: Touching death / Ernst van Alphen; title: A valediction forbidding mourning : death and the narratee in Brontë's Villette / Garrett Stewart; title: Lacan, the death drive, and the dream of the burning child / Ellie Ragland Sullivan; title: Risky resemblances : on repetition, mourning, and representation / Elisabeth Bronfen; title: Painting the dead : portraiture and necrophilia in Victorian art and poetry / Carol Christ; title: Romanticism and the ghost of prostitution : Freud, Maria, and "Alice Fell" / Sarah Webster Goodwin; title: Writing as voodoo : sorcery, hysteria, and art / Regina Barreca; title: Women in the forbidden zone : war, women, and death / Margaret R. Higonnet; title: Euripides' Alcestis : how to die a normal death in Greek tragedy / Charles Segal; title: Beheadings / Regina Janes; title: "Who kills whores?" "I do," says Jack : race and gender in Victorian London / Sander L. Gilman; title: Representing Sati : continuities and discontinuities / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan; title: Afterword : Walter Benjamin and the crisis of representation : multiplicity, meaning, and athematic death / Ronald Schleifer.