Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction

Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 235
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ISBN-10 : 9781137022691
ISBN-13 : 1137022698
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Book Synopsis Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction by : Alice Bennett

Download or read book Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction written by Alice Bennett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 .


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