Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction
| Author | : Alice Bennett |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2012-07-06 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781137022691 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1137022698 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction by : Alice Bennett
Download or read book Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction written by Alice Bennett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Time's Arrow to narration from heaven in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones .
