Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Literary Necrodialogues between Tradition and Innovation
6. When Spirits Write: Mediumism as Writing Practice in the Work of W.B. Yeats 19
7. Long Live the Medium: Transgressing the Boundaries of Authorship in Jean Cocteau’s Orphée 49
8. In limine leti: Necrodialogues and Liminality in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Neo-Latin Literature 73
9. Contact Failures: Metaphysical Fantasies in German-Language Post-War Radio Plays 95
10. The Necrodialogue as a Modelling System in the Work of Arno Schmidt (1914–1979) 125
11. Mediatic Muses, Sacrifices, and Survivors: Klaus Theweleit’s Pattern of Male Art Production 151
12. 2 Contemporary Practices of Necrodialogues
13. Familiarized Necrodialogues through the Lens of Nordic Culture 175
14. A Message from Babe: Necrodialogues in Pregnancy Loss 197
15. Hearing Spirits: The Work and Technique of Controlled Clairaudience 215
16. When the Victims Speak: Necrodialogues in Selva Almada’s Dead Girls 233
17. About the Authors
18. Index