Last Things: Essays on Ends and Endings

Peter Wenzel editor Gavin Hopps editor Stella Neumann editor Sven Strasen editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:19th Mar '15

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This multidisciplinary collection brings together scholars from the fields of literature, theology and linguistics who question and extend our taken-for-granted conceptions of The End. It focuses on the ways in which endings are formally signaled in literature, and sets these alongside parallel studies in journalism and film. However, it is also concerned with larger philosophical and historical notions of closure, impermanence, rupture and apocalypse as well as the possibilities of «posthumous» being. It gives examples from fairytales, Byron, Longfellow, Dillard, Barnes and South African writers.

ISBN: 9783631652466

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 410g

234 pages

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