TY - BOOK ID - 78073663 TI - Death in literature AU - Hakola, Outi AU - Kivistö, Sari Anneli PY - 2014 SN - 144385994X 9781443859943 1443856789 9781443856782 PB - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Death KW - Death in literature. KW - Mort KW - Dans la littérature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78073663 AB - Death is an inevitable, yet mysterious event. Fiction is one way to imagine and gain knowledge of death. Death is very useful to literature, as it creates plot twists, suspense, mysteries, and emotional effects in narrations. But more importantly, stories about death seem to have an existential importance to our lives. Stories provide fictional encounters with death and give meaning for both death and life. Thus, death is more than a physical or psychological experience in literature; it also... ER -