Death Is Served: The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media - Couverture souple

Stella Castelli

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3837665690 ISBN 13 : 9783837665697

Editeur : Transcript Verlag, 2023

Synopsis

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 the inability of language 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Stella Castelli, born in 1989, works as a teaching associate at the English Department of Universität Zürich. In 2023, she finalized her doctoral dissertation discussing the serial representation of death in American culture. Her research focuses on American studies, literature, film and television studies, psycho-analytic criticism as well as philosophy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Transcript Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3837665690
• ISBN 13: 9783837665697
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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