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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Representations of Death"”.
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Dressed to kill: the costume design for Merry debaucheries and a Dance with death
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death has been adapted with both metaphorical and literal representations of death as in Mia van Leeuwen’s devised adaptation performed at the University of Lethbridge in 2022 for A Night at the Grand Guignol: 2022. In the costume and mask design for Prospero …
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Fictional matters: death, emotion and representation in nineteenth-century Spain
This dissertation analyzes the representation of death in works of Spanish fiction from 1850-1887. Looking beyond metaphorical representation, I examine the ways in which representations of death are influenced and enhanced by the representation of emotion. Death poses an interesting challenge to …
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Baudelaire's Responses to Death: (In)articulation, Mourning and Suicide
… poetry was censored in part for his graphic representations of death, for Baudelaire himself, death was the ultimate censorship. He grappled with its limitations of the possibility of articulation in Les Fleurs du mal, Le Spleen de Paris, "Le Poème du hachisch," and other works. The first …
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'Painful Passages': Death, Ritual, and Literature in Post -Reformation England
"This dissertation examines forms of writing that emerge in seventeenth century England as Protestants struggle to reform older Catholic traditions and discover new ways of representing death. Cultural and literary studies in this period have usually seen this transition as an attack on traditional …
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Death and Self-Identity in the Contemporary Fantasies of Philip Pullman, Garth Nix, and Steven Erikson
Death is inevitable yet inherently unknowable in its experience. The possibility of persistence within death lacks evidence but compels the mind. Through imagined narratives we can conceptualize possible experiences of death and afterlife spaces to address the fears and uncertainties associated …
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Death as Poetics of Dislocation in the Global South: René Depestre, Maryse Condé, and Santiago Gamboa
Fiction writing in the Global South—because of the region’s history and experience with colonialism—has been inextricably linked to questions of self-definition and collective representation. In a context of political and cultural domination, creative writers found themselves in the privileged but …
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The Origins of English Revenge Tragedy, ca.1567-1623
This thesis offers a materialist account of dramatic genre. It shows how English revenge tragedies were mediated by the social circumstances of their early modern dramatic production, and how in turn such circumstances found expression in dramatic form. Its method draws on Marxist critical theory, …
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Dying to Learn, Learning to Die, The Craft of Dying in Early Modern English Drama and the Cultivation of Dying-Voice Literacy
… TO LEARN, LEARNING TO DIE</p> <p>THE CRAFT OF DYING IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA</p> <p>AND THE CULTIVATION OF DYING-VOICE LITERACY</p> <p>by</p> <p>SIMON G. FORTIN</p> <p>Adviser: Professor Mario DiGangi</p> <p>This dissertation contends that, through their relentless dramatization of …