Daniel K. Jernigan is Associate Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Neil Murphy is Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Introduction

PART I Traversing the Ontological Divide
- Introduction

• The Final Frontier: Science Fictions of Death


- Brian McHale

• "Still I Danced": Performing Death in Ford's The Broken Heart


- Donovan Sherman

• Death and the Margins of Theatre in Luigi Pirandello


- Daniel K. Jernigan

• Forbidden Mental Fruit? Dead Narrators and Characters from Medieval to Postmodernist Narratives


- Jan Alber

• Literature and the Afterlife


- Alice Bennett

• The Novel as Heartbeat: The Dead Narrator in Mike McCormack's Solar Bones


- Neil Murphy

• Dead Man/and Woman Talking: Narratives from Beyond the Grave


- Philippe Carrard

• The View from Upstream: Authority and Projection in Fontenelle's Nouveaux dialogues des morts


- Jessica Goodman

PART II Genres- Introduction

• Big Questions: Re-Visioning and Re-Scripting Death Narratives in Children's Literature


- Lesley D. Clement

• In the U-Bend with Moaning Myrtle: Thinking about Death in YA Literature


- Karen Coats

• Death and Mourning in Graphic Narrative


- José Alaniz

• Death and Documentaries: Heuristics for the Real in an Age of Simulation


- Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter

• Death and the Fanciulla


- Reed Way Dasenbrock

• Death, Literary Form, and Affective Comprehension: Primary Emotions and the Neurological Basis of Genre


- Ronald Schleifer

PART III Site, Space, and Spatiality
- Introduction

• Ecocide and the Anthropocene: Death and the Environment


- Flore Coulouma

• A Disney Death: Coco, Black Panther, and the Limits of the Afterlife


- Stacy Thompson

• Suicide in the Early Modern Elegiac Tradition


- Kelly McGuire

• Institutions and Elegies: Viewing the Dead in W. B. Yeats and John Wieners


- Barry Sheils and Julie Walsh

• Death "after Long Silence": Auditing Agamben's Metaphysics of Negativity in Yeats's Lyric


- Samuel Caleb Wee

• The Spatialization of Death in the Novels of Virginia Woolf


- Ian Tan

• "Memento Mori": memory, Death, and Posterity in Singapore's Poetry


- Jen Crawford

PART IV Rituals, Memorials, and Epitaphs
- Intro