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Mortality and imagination : the life of the dead in medieval English literature

Title: Mortality and imagination : the life of the dead in medieval English literature / by Kenneth Rooney.
Author: Rooney, Kenneth.
Publication: Turnhout : Brepols, ©2011.

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Description

x, 304 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

This volume is devoted to the use and representation of the dead in English medieval writing. The book is a history of the literary 'life' of the dead - in their narrative, aesthetic, and ideological formulation - a theme which up to now has been explored only fragmentarily, available only in studies of particular genres.

Series Statement

Disputatio ; v. 12

Uniform Title

Disputatio (Turnhout, Belgium) ; v. 12.

Alternative Title

Life of the dead in medieval English literature

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-295) and index.

Contents

Introduction: language tradition and the birth of the dead -- 1. Vile bodies the cultural life of the corpse -- 2. The progress of the dead from body to revenant -- 3. Farewell to the flesh disembodying the dead -- 4. Grave concerns the complaint of the buried body -- 5. Romancing the Macabre the three dead and their legacy -- 6. Death apostrophe embodying death -- 7. Dancing with death the danse macabre -- Conclusion (Epitaph) a handful of dust.

ISBN

9782503524313
2503524311

LCCN

99948997776

OCLC

ocn758984611
758984611
SCSB-14533743

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library