Necrodialogues and Media
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Edited by:
Elena Fabietti
About this book
This volume is an original contribution to the understanding of the various forms of communication with the dead. Terming them "necrodialogues", it examines these forms of communication in relation to cultural and ritual practices of necromancy and mediumism on the one hand, and to the development of technologies for establishing contact with the beyond on the other. While recent scholarship in media and cultural studies rejects the narrative that technological progress in modernity eclipsed religious experiences and occult practices, twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary studies, holding on to the secularization paradigm, still largely dismiss practices of communication with the dead as anti-modern. By bringing together perspectives from different disciplines, this volume emphasizes the interconnectedness of literary necrodialogues and other cultural and media practices of communicating with the dead. The main aim of the collection is to explore the cultural, historical, anthropological, and media contexts in which modern necrodialogues are produced and invested with different meanings.
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Topics
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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Introduction
1 - 1 Literary Necrodialogues between Tradition and Innovation
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When Spirits Write: Mediumism as Writing Practice in the Work of W.B. Yeats
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Long Live the Medium: Transgressing the Boundaries of Authorship in Jean Cocteau’s Orphée
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In limine leti: Necrodialogues and Liminality in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Neo-Latin Literature
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Contact Failures: Metaphysical Fantasies in German-Language Post-War Radio Plays
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The Necrodialogue as a Modelling System in the Work of Arno Schmidt (1914–1979)
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Mediatic Muses, Sacrifices, and Survivors: Klaus Theweleit’s Pattern of Male Art Production
151 - 2 Contemporary Practices of Necrodialogues
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Familiarized Necrodialogues through the Lens of Nordic Culture
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A Message from Babe: Necrodialogues in Pregnancy Loss
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Hearing Spirits: The Work and Technique of Controlled Clairaudience
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When the Victims Speak: Necrodialogues in Selva Almada’s Dead Girls
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About the Authors
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Index
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