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Death is Served: The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media
[Dissertation]
Abstract The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. The author shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from the inability of language to satisfact... mehr
The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. The author shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from the inability of language to satisfactorily grasp death. Taking an intermedial approach, she investigates the forms and tropes born from this preoccupation with death and conceptualizes its imagination alongside an appetite which manifests as repetitive encoding. These metaphors of food consumption provide a hermeneutic framing for analyzing representations of death across American literature and media.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Tod; Literatur; Medien; Film; USA; Fernsehen; Alltagskultur
Klassifikation
Medieninhalte, Aussagenforschung
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Verlag
transcript Verlag
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
218 S.
Schriftenreihe
American Culture Studies, 40
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839465691
ISSN
2747-4380
ISBN
978-3-8394-6569-1
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)