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