Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction (John J. Han and C. Clark Triplett) -- Part One: Death as a Reflection of Cultural Meaning and Symbolism -- Chapter One: Gravesites in the Stories of Herman Charles Bosman: An Exploration of History, Memory, Ritual, Identity, and Landscape (Carol Leff) -- Chapter Two: "Mouthed Graves Will Give Thee Memory": Burial Sites and Poetic Immortality in Renaissance Verse (Colin Yeo) -- Chapter Three: Christian and Muslim Concepts of Death and the Afterlife in Postmodern Agnostic Poetry (Marwan A. Nader and Myrna A. Nader) -- Part Two: Death as a Literary Device -- Chapter Four: The End of Language? Representations and Effects of Death and Dying in the Fiction of Julia Kristeva and Susan Sontag (Heather H. Yeung) -- Chapter Five: Death as an Instrument for Social Criticism in Young Italian Literature (Daniela Chana) -- Chapter Six: The Secret Garden at the Back of the North Wind: The Life and Death Journey in Frances Hodgson Burnett and George MacDonald (John Pennington) -- Part Three: Those Left Behind -- Chapter Seven: How Men Grieve: A Contemporary Allegory of the Grieving Process in Sir Orfeo (Rebekah M. Fowler) -- Chapter Eight: Haunting and Melancholia: A Reading of the Revenant in Seamus Heaney's "Casualty" (Carolyn Ownbey) -- Chapter Nine: Those Left Behind: The Non-Endings of Primo Levi's If This Is a Man and Aharon Appelfeld's The Immortal Bartfuss (Kelly Leavitt) -- Part Four: Death and Postmodernism -- Chapter Ten: In The Driver's Seat: Death and Isolation in Muriel Spark's Postmodern Gothic (Hannah Farrell) -- Chapter Eleven: Death and Dying as Literary Devices in Brite's Exquisite Corpse and Palahniuk's Damned (Claudia Desblaches) -- Chapter Twelve: "Stories Can Save Us": Rewriting Death in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (Lori F. Smurthwaite).

Part Five: Death as an Expression of Personal Experience -- Chapter Thirteen: Tears and the Art of Grief (James Brown) -- Chapter Fourteen: Quick and Long-Lasting: Death and Dying in John Steinbeck's Fiction (John J. Han) -- Chapter Fifteen: Death-Defying Women: Art and Transcendence in Cather (Debra L. Cumberland) -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Index.