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Thanatography: Stories of Love, Death, and Mourning
ABSTRACT (en)
This study develops the concept of ‘thanatography’ as an umbrella term for the marginalized corpus of autobiographical prose texts dealing with the death and mourning of a loved one. It is based on the widespread thesis that 20th-century Euro-American society banished death from both public and private spheres. Secularization, individualization, medicalization, and objectification of death and related phenomena, according to some authors, ultimately led to a situation in Western culture in which death manifests itself primarily in hypertrophied form, for example in genre literature (or film). Thanatographies, which began to appear in greater numbers during the second half of the last century, but which continue to be a productive tradition, deal with death in its everyday form and complexity, and thus represent an important, albeit marginalized, counterexample to the no- tion that death was taboo in the 20th century. This study discusses how thanatographies inspired by related genres may be read, and proposes a new methodology for their interpretation, one that re- gards the literary text not as a work but as a play of mourning, and that shows different forms of the literary staging of grief on the thanatographic texts of Friederike Mayröcker.
KEYWORDS (cz)
thanatografie; pathografie; auto/biografie; práce truchlení; Friederike Mayröcker
KEYWORDS (en)
thanatography; pathography; auto/biography; work of mourning; Friederike Mayröcker
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14712/23366680.2024.2.5
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