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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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Culture Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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