Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art, and Film: Song of Death in Paradise

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Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film: Song of Death in Paradise explores the combination of two motifs, death and gardens, to show how the two subjects are intertwined and used in various media and cultural contexts. Using cultural, literary, film, and art history theories, the contributors analyze various death and garden sceneries in literary works by Arthur Machen, Agatha Christie, J.K. Rowling, as well as in superhero comics, films, and cultural and art contexts such as Ian Hamilton Finley's Little Sparta, the poetic verses from the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden in South Africa, and the Australian wilderness.

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Foraging in both literary and real gardens, this eclectic collection of essays shows death animating gardens of all kinds. Ranging from Hemingway to Bauman, from Marvel superheroes to crime novel murder scenes and underwater octopus gardens, Death and Garden Narratives makes a landmark contribution to death studies.

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Feryal Cubukcu is head of the English language education department at Dokuz Eylul University in Turkey.

Sabine Planka is research associate in the humanities department at the university library of FernUniversitt Hagen in Germany.