: engraved narratives Zigarovich, Jolene. creator Jolene Zigarovich text New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012 monographic eng

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viii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm This book asks why Brontë, Dickens, and Collins saw the narrative act as a series of textual murders and resurrections? Drawing on theorists such as Derrida, Blanchot, and de Man, Zigarovich maintains that narrating death was important to the understanding of absence, separation, and displacement in an industrial and destabilized culture. Introduction "A laboriously constructed skeleton": retrospection, loss and obituary in Villette "It sounds as hollow as a coffin": the empty tomb in Bleak house Wilkie Collins, narrativity, and epitaph Memorialization and endlessness in Dickens's Our mutual friend Edwin Drood: the seminal missing body /Jolene Zigarovich. Dead in literature English fiction Roman anglais Criticism and interpretation 823.809 ZIG 9781137007025 : Zafaa Books & Distributors : 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi 231220 20231220113708.0