Introduction: The Paradoxical Nature of Death in America

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction: The Paradoxical Nature of Death in America 7
4. 1. The Text Devouring the Dead: Edgar Allan Poe and David Lynch’s American Gothic 23
5. 2. I am Dead, Yet I Live – The Zombie’s Gluttonous Craving for the Living 59
6. 3. Producing the Corpse: Quentin Tarantino’s Revenge Narratives 89
7. 4. Ingesting the Corpse: The Cannibal’s Taste for Death – American Psycho and Hannibal 125
8. 5. Creator/Destroyer: The Serial Killer as an American Phenomenon 155
9. Conclusion: Death. Again 195
10. Acknowledgements 205
11. Bibliography 207
12. List of Illustrations 217