Death in Literature

Death in Literature Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Fiction
  • On Death and Dying: Kafka's Allegory of Reading
  • Solipsism and Death in D. H. Lawrence's Late Works
  • The Quintessence of Dowsonism: 'The Dying of Francis Donne'
  • Zeno's Ontological Confessions
  • Mark Twain and the Dark Angel
  • 1000 Words: Fiction Against Death
  • The Self-Annihilating Artists of 'Pale Fire'
  • 'If Nobody Had to Die': The Problem of Mortality in Gertrude Stein's 'The Geographical History of America'
  • Perilous Parenting: The Deaths of Children and the Construction of Aging in Contemporary American Fiction
  • The Most Valuable Thing: James on Death
  • Richard Brautigan's Search for Control Over Death
  • Suicide in Henry James's Fiction: A Sociological Analysis
  • A Case of Death: The Fiction of J. P. Donleavy
  • Death and Black Humor
  • 'Confession' and Death
  • "Winesburg Ohio' as a Dance of Death
• Poetry
  • Death and the Native Strain in American Poetry
  • As If Day Had Rearranged Into Night: Suicidal Tendencies in the Poetry of Anne Sexton
  • Death By Water
  • The Deathly Paradise of Sylvia Plath
  • "The Body of This Death' in Robert Penn Warren's Later Poems
• Drama
  • Tennessee William's Meditations on Life and Death in 'Suddenly Last Summer', 'The Night of the Iguana', and 'The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
  • E. E. Cummings' Concept of Death
  • The Longing For Death in O'Neill's 'Strange Interlude' and 'Mourning Becomes Electra'
  • Ionesco, or a Pregnant Death
  • Rosette Lament
  • The Dance of Death in Modern Drama
• Further Reading