Spectacular death : interdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and (un)representability / edited by Tristanne Connolly.

Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2011.

ix, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Classical death : comedy and tragedy. Life, death, and the in-between: the duck-rabbit / the face of the clown / Alan Blum ; The illness of hope, the cure of truth and the difference of principle: a reflexive analysis of Antigone's and Meursault's confrontation with death / Kieran Bonner -- Enlightenment and romanticism : aestheticizing the corpse. Reflexive vectors: art, anatomy and death in Cowper and Gamelin / Morgan Tunzelmann ; "Mother of unworthy woe": infant death and sentimental maternity in British romantic women's poetry and midwifery books Tristanne Connolly ; Speaking of death: remembrance and lamentation / Jan Plecash -- Memorialization and the city. Enjoyment's petrification: the Luxor Obelisk in a melancholic century / Mike Follert ; Barcelona, in memoriam: the tension between urban renovation and the past / Marta Marín-Dòmine ; Jewish victims and German youth: questions of pedagogy and responsibility at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp / Elke Grenzer ; X marks the spot: New Orleans under erasure / Kevin Dowler ; Life and death in New Orleans: disaster tours imagined / Stephen Svenson and Cory Ruf -- Policy : border control between life and death. Hope and resignation in medical care: when doctors go to court to terminate patient treatment / Diego Llovet ; Life-threatening (anaphylactic) food allergies: school life, health and well-being / Saeed Hydaralli -- Live deaths and afterlives. Game death: fantasy and mastery in scenario paintball / Ariane Hanemaayer ; Delirious exhibitionism: negotiating technologies in Timothy Leary's live death / Elizabeth C. Effinger ; How the dead circulate (in life) / Peter McHugh.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-297).