Description

Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film: Song of Death in Paradise explores the combination of two motifs, death and gardens, to show how the two subjects are intertwined and used in various media and cultural contexts. Using cultural, literary, film, and art history theories, the contributors analyze various death and garden sceneries in literary works by Arthur Machen, Agatha Christie, J.K. Rowling, as well as in superhero comics, films, and cultural and art contexts such as Ian Hamilton Finley's “Little Sparta,” the poetic verses from the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden in South Africa, and the Australian wilderness.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Death in an English Garden: Agential Realism and the Nature of Arthur Machen's “Panic Terror”
Adrian Tait

Chapter 2: The Death of the Profound Natural Aesthetics in the Garden in Ernest Hemingway's “The End of Something”
Zennure Köseman
Chapter 3: The Season before Death: Exile and Memory in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Paul Venzo
Chapter 4: Death and Psychogeography in Agatha Christie's Detective Stories
Feryal Cubukcu
Chapter 5: My Home is my Castle, my Garden your Grave: The Private Garden as Graveyard in Selected Crime Novels
Sabine Planka
Chapter 6: Gardens of the Undead: Graveyards and Tombs in the Harry Potter Series
Miriam Strieder
Chapter 7: Garden or Graveyard? “The Contemplation of Death” in Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta
Ekaterina Kochetkova
Chapter 8: The Dialectic of Life and Death in the 'Garden Verses' of the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden
Philip van der Merwe
Chapter 9: Nationalized Landscape and the Cult of the Dead at the Bückeberg (1933 – 1937)

Product details

Published Jul 30 2020
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 220
ISBN 9781793625885
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 5 b/w photos;
Dimensions 240 x 162 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Sabine Planka

Anthology Editor

Feryal Cubukcu

Contributor

Feryal Cubukcu

Contributor

Nicolas Gaspers

Contributor

Frances Livings

Contributor

Sabine Planka

Contributor

Miriam Strieder

Contributor

Adrian Tait

Adrian Tait is an ecocritic with a particular inte…

Contributor

Paul Venzo

ONLINE RESOURCES

Bloomsbury Collections

This book is available on Bloomsbury Collections where your library has access.

Related Titles

Environment: Staging