Death is Served von Stella Castelli | The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media | ISBN 9783837665697

Death is Served

The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media

von Stella Castelli
Buchcover Death is Served | Stella Castelli | EAN 9783837665697 | ISBN 3-8376-6569-0 | ISBN 978-3-8376-6569-7
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»Castelli [hat] einen gelungenen Beitrag zum Diskurs gegenwärtiger Todesdarstellungen geleistet, der durch die Analogie zum Essen eine besondere Würze erhält.« Simon Born, MEDIENwissenschaft, 1 (2024)

Death is Served

The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media

von Stella Castelli
The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. Stella Castelli shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from the inability of language to satisfactorily grasp death. Taking an intermedial approach, she investigates the forms and tropes born from this preoccupation with death and conceptualizes its imagination alongside an appetite which manifests as repetitive encoding. These metaphors of food consumption provide a hermeneutic framing for analyzing representations of death across American literature and media.