Sites of death in some recent British fiction

Robert Hampson

doi:10.3898/NEWF:89/90.12.2016

Sites of death in some recent British fiction

Robert Hampson

Department of English

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Abstract

Although it is often thought that death has been removed from view in the twentieth century into the hospital, the hospice, the funeral parlour, the crematorium, this article shows, through a reading of a range of British fiction writers (such as J. G. Ballard, Gordon Burn, Iain Sinclair, Tom McCarthy) how death and dying are ubiquitous in the contemporary mediated world.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	212-229
Number of pages	18
Journal	New Formations
Volume	89/90
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3898/NEWF:89/90.12.2016
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2016
Event	Death and the Contemporary - Somerset House, London, United Kingdom Duration: 20 Oct 2012 → 11 Sept 2013

Keywords

death
J.G. Ballard
Tom McCarthy
Gordon Burn
Iain Sinclair
Graham Swift
psychogeography
Detective Fiction
modern rituals

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