Death is Served : : The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media / / Stella Castelli.
The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. Stella Castelli shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from language's inability to sati...
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Castelli, Stella, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Death is Served : The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media / Stella Castelli. Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (220 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier American Culture Studies ; 40 Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023) This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. Stella Castelli shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from language's inability to satisfactorily grasp death. Taking an intermedial approach, she investigates the forms and tropes born from this preoccupation with death and conceptualizes its imagination alongside an appetite which manifests as repetitive encoding. These metaphors of food consumption provide a hermeneutic framing for analyzing representations of death across American literature and media. In English. funded by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Paradoxical Nature of Death in America -- 1. The Text Devouring the Dead: Edgar Allan Poe and David Lynch's American Gothic -- 2. I am Dead, Yet I Live - The Zombie's Gluttonous Craving for the Living -- 3. Producing the Corpse: Quentin Tarantino's Revenge Narratives -- 4. Ingesting the Corpse: The Cannibal's Taste for Death - American Psycho and Hannibal -- 5. Creator/Destroyer: The Serial Killer as an American Phenomenon -- Conclusion: Death. Again -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. bisacsh America. Cultural Studies. Film. Literature. Media. Popular Culture. Television. 3-8376-6569-0 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) funder. fnd http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd |
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