Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction

Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich vein of imagined afterlives, from the temporal experiments of Martin Amis's Time's Arrow to narration from heaven in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones .

Author: Alice Bennett
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/06/2012
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230364240

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2013

About the Author
ALICE BENNETT Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at Liverpool Hope University, UK. She taught modern literature and theory at Durham University, UK, where she also completed her PhD.