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Contents

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
Ricarda Vidal and Maria-José Blanco

PART I: DEATH IN SOCIETY

Chapter 1. Life Extension, Immortality and the Patient Voice
Catherine Jenkins

Chapter 2. Beyond ‘Mourning and Melancholia’
Lynne M. Simpson

Chapter 3. War and Requiem Compositions in the Twentieth Century
Wolfgang Marx

PART II: DEATH IN LITERATURE

Chapter 4. Understanding Death/Writing Bereavement: The writer’s experience
Maria-José Blanco López de Lerma

Chapter 5. A Way of Sorrows for the Twentieth Century: Margherita Guidacci’s LaVia Crucis dell’umanità
Eleanor David

Chapter 6. From Self-Erasure to Self-Affirmation: Communally Acknowledged ‘Good Death’ in Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying
Corina Crisu

Chapter 7. Habeas Corpse. The Dead Body of Evidence in John Grisham’s The Client
Fiorenzo Iuliano

Chapter 8. The Fascination with Torture and Death in Twenty-first-Century Crime Fiction
Rebecca Shillabeer

PART III: DEATH IN VISUAL CULTURE

Chapter 9. The Power of Negative Creation – Why Art by Serial Killers Sells
Ricarda Vidal

Chapter 10. Screening the Dying Individual: Film, Mortality and the Ethics of Spectatorship
John Horne

Chapter 11. The Broken Body as Spectacle: Looking at Death and Injury in Sport
Julia Banwell

Chapter 12. Death on Display: The Ideological Function of the Mummies of the World Exhibit
Diana York Blaine

PART IV: CEMETERIES AND FUNERALS

Chapter 13. The Romanian Carnival of Death and the Merry Cemetery of  Săpânţa
Marina Cap Bun

Chapter 14. In the Dead of Night: a Nocturnal Exploration of Heterotopia in the Graveyard
Bel Deering

Chapter 15. Scenarios of Death in Contexts of Mobility: Guineans and Bangladeshis in Lisbon
Clara Saraiva and José Mapril

Chapter 16. Karaoke Death: Intertextuality in Active Euthanasia Practices
Natasha Lushetich

PART V: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON DEATH

Chapter 17. Death isn't what it used to be
Lala Isla

Chapter 18. The Dad Project
Briony Campbell

Index

The Power of Death

Contemporary Reflections on Death in Western Society

Edited by Maria-José Blanco and Ricarda Vidal

272 pages, 17 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78238-433-5 Hb Published (October 2014)

ISBN  978-1-78533-510-5 Pb Published (February 2017)

eISBN 978-1-78238-434-2 eBook