Narrative Fiction and Death: Dying Imagined

by Sabine Köllmann

Narrative Fiction and Death: Dying Imagined offers a new perspective on the study of death in literature. It focuses on narrative fiction that conveys the experience of dying from the internal perspective of a dying protagonist. Writers from Victor Hugo in the early 1800s to Elif Shafak in the present day have imagined the unknowable final moments on the threshold to death. This literary study examines the wide range of narrative strategies used...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032539860
• ISBN13: 9781032539867
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"