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People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory--but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability wasn't due to religion, but philosophy: saying someone is dead is nonsense, as the person no longer is. The one thing that can talk about something that is not, as D. Vance Smith shows in this innovative, provocative book, is literature.

Covering the emergence of English literature from the Old English to the late medieval periods, Arts of Dying argues that the problem of how to designate death produced a long tradition of literature about dying, which continues in the work of Heidegger, Blanchot, and Gillian Rose. Philosophy's attempt to designate death's impossibility is part of a literature that imagines a relationship with death, a literature that intensively and self-reflexively supposes that its very terms might solve the problem of the termination of life. A lyrical and elegiac exploration that combines medieval work on the philosophy of language with contemporary theorizing on death and dying, Arts of Dying is an important contribution to medieval studies, literary criticism, phenomenology, and continental philosophy.
About the Author: D. Vance Smith is professor of English and former Director of Medieval Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of four books, most recently, Arts of Possession: The Middle English Household Imaginary.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780226640853
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 572 gr
  • ISBN-10: 022664085X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2020
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England
  • Width: 152 mm


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