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Death is Served

The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media
DOI: 10.14361/9783839465691
  • Castelli,  Stella
    Castelli, Stella

Abstract

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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Frontmatter
Stella Castelli
Seiten: 1 - 4
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Contents
Stella Castelli
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Introduction: The Paradoxical Nature of Death in America
Stella Castelli
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1. The Text Devouring the Dead: Edgar Allan Poe and David Lynch's American Gothic
Stella Castelli
Seiten: 23 - 58
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2. I am Dead, Yet I Live – The Zombie's Gluttonous Craving for the Living
Stella Castelli
Seiten: 59 - 88
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3. Producing the Corpse: Quentin Tarantino's Revenge Narratives
Stella Castelli
Seiten: 89 - 124
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4. Ingesting the Corpse: The Cannibal's Taste for Death – American Psycho and Hannibal
Stella Castelli
Seiten: 125 - 154
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5. Creator/Destroyer: The Serial Killer as an American Phenomenon
Stella Castelli
Seiten: 155 - 194
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Conclusion: Death. Again
Stella Castelli
Seiten: 195 - 204
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Acknowledgements
Stella Castelli
Seiten: 205 - 206
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Bibliography
Stella Castelli
Seiten: 207 - 216
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List of Illustrations
Stella Castelli
Seiten: 217 - 220
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978-3-8394-6569-1
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220
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transcript Verlag
Schlagworte
Death, America, Popular Culture, Media, Literature, Film, Cultural Studies, Television,

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