Title: Afterlife and narrative in contemporary fiction
Description: Afterlife and narrative in contemporary fiction 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 Amiss Times Arrow to narration from heaven in Alice Sebolds The Lovely Bones.
Subjects: History and criticism, Narration (Rhetoric), Future life in literature, Fiction, Fiction, history and criticism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Literary, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: from c 1900 -., Literature