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 .
Table of Content
Acknowledgements Afterlife Now Dead Endings: Making Meaning from the Afterlife Killing Time: Narrating Eternity After Effects: Purgatory, Prolepsis and the Past Tense Plotting Murder: Genre, Plot and the Dead Narrator Ghostwords: Mind-Reading and the Dead Narrator Death Writing: Deixis of Person and the Dead Narrator Here, There and Hereafter: Fictional Worlds and the Afterlife After Life Writing Appendix: Chronology of Primary Texts Notes Bibliography Index
About the author
ALICE BENNETT Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at Liverpool Hope University, UK. She taught modern literature and theory at Durham University, UK, where she also completed her Ph D.
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