Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction
Description
Afterlife and Narrative 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 Amis's Time's Arrow to narration from heaven in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones .
Keywords
Literary CriticismModern20th CenturySemiotics & TheorySocial ScienceFictionEuropeanAmericanLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & ComparativeAnthropologyCultural & Social
2012Book
Author(s)Alice Bennett
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780230364240
LanguageEnglish
