Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction

Bennett, Alice

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 .

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-07-06

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230364240

DOI: 10.1057/9781137022691

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 228