Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction
Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich vein of imagined afterlives, from the temporal experiments of Martin Amis's
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Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction
10.1057/9781137022691 - Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction, Alice Bennett
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Alice Bennett
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Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction
© Alice Bennett 2012
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Acknowledgements
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Afterlife Now
2 Dead Endings: Making Meaning from the Afterlife
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3 Killing Time: Narrating Eternity
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4 After Effects: Purgatory, Prolepsis and the Past Tense
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5 Plotting Murder: Genre, Plot and t
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