Index

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Presentation 1
4. Section I. Three disciplinary approaches to the subject of death
5. Death 11
6. Moral ortothanasia and the right to die 23
7. In the wake of loss 35
8. Section II. Discourse analysis in health settings
9. The gift of continuing to live in the body of someone else 49
10. Giving meaning to illness and death 67
11. Religion, collusion, and “fighting” 85
12. Rhetoric of death in clinical case reports and clinical tales 97
13. Section III. Death in literary texts
14. ‘Letters to Lucilius’ and death 113
15. Montaigne, the essay and the end of life 125
16. Memory, mothers and post-Freudian melancholia in Mercè Rodoreda’s ‘Night and Fog’ 147
17. The scenography of death in contemporary poetry 167
18. Beyond the limits of death 179
19. Index 195