616026308 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code IVITRA 26 Eb 15 9789027261373 06 10.1075/ivitra.26 13 2019055091 DG 002 02 01 IVITRA 02 2211-5412 IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 26 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Discourses on the Edges of Life</TitleText> 01 ivitra.26 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/ivitra.26 1 B01 Vicent Salvador Salvador, Vicent Vicent Salvador Universitat Jaume I 2 B01 Adéla Kotátková Kotátková, Adéla Adéla Kotátková Universitat Jaume I 3 B01 Ignasi Clemente Clemente, Ignasi Ignasi Clemente Louis Dundas Centre For Children’s Palliative Care, Institute of Child Health, University College London, Hunter College, City University of New York 01 eng 202 vi 196 LAN009030 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.NAR Narrative Studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIT.THEOR Theoretical literature & literary studies 24 JB Subject Scheme PHIL.GEN Philosophy 06 01 Death inhabits our collective imaginary, even though sometimes, like a squatter, it hides discretely in order to avoid conflicts. It is undoubtedly a multi-faceted subject of study, which requires consideration from an interdisciplinary perspective. <br />This book deals with this phenomenon, and more specifically with the discourses that surround – and construct our perspectives and understanding of – death and dying. Of course, the present volume does not attempt to be exhaustive, and considers the subject from several standpoints, including linguistics, anthropology, history of medicine, and importantly, literary studies. It combines various points of view and different methodologies of knowledge, in the hope that they come together to constitute a written dialogue –or more precisely, a <i>polylogue</i>. <br />The ordering of the texts in this volume provides readers with an itinerary that begins with more general approaches, such as a historical presentation of the medicalisation of death and an in-depth reflection on the best way to die, and ends with studies of specific literary works from different periods. <br />The itinerary that this book provides is framed by a discourse analysis-based overview that explores how different approaches to death and dying intersect and complement each other in an interdisciplinary endeavour. This analysis focuses on literary and non-literary genres in order to shed some new light on a topic that is inexhaustible because of its sociocultural relevance. 05 This volume’s contribution to knowledge is undeniable: especially for its insistence on aspects such as narrativity, the sociocultural construction of beliefs and practices related to death, and the progressive medicalization in today's world. Dominic Keown, University of Cambridge 05 This book combines the epistemological interests of psychology, history of medicine, ethnography, ethics, language sciences, and literary criticism. Manuel Pérez-Saldanya, Universitat de València 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/ivitra.26.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027205377.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027205377.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/ivitra.26.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/ivitra.26.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/ivitra.26.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/ivitra.26.hb.png 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.int 1 8 8 Chapter 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Presentation</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Discourses on death and dying</Subtitle> 1 A01 Vicent Salvador Salvador, Vicent Vicent Salvador Universitat Jaume I 2 A01 Adéla Kotátková Kotátková, Adéla Adéla Kotátková Universitat Jaume I 3 A01 Ignasi Clemente Clemente, Ignasi Ignasi Clemente Louis Dundas Centre For Children's Palliative Care, Institute of Child Health, University College London, and Hunter College, City University of New York 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.p1 12 45 34 Section header 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Section&#160;I. Three disciplinary approaches to the subject of death</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.01bar 11 22 12 Chapter 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Death</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">From myth to the laboratory</Subtitle> 1 A01 Josep Lluis Barona Barona, Josep Lluis Josep Lluis Barona Universitat de València 20 culture 20 death 20 medicine and technology 20 myth 01 Death is a biological event which forms an essential part of culture. All human societies have attributed some meaning to death in myth, religion, philosophy or science. The various forms of art have also represented death as an essential part of the human condition. This article discusses the cultural, social and medical constructions of death, starting with the origin myth and the contradiction between death and eternal life. It explores funeral rites and parish registers, examines death as an important social phenomenon in modern societies and considers the meaning of civil registries as instruments of social identity and legitimacy. Finally, it reflects on medicine&#8217;s power over death, death&#8217;s biological dimension and attempts to objectify signs of death. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.02lol 23 34 12 Chapter 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Moral ortothanasia and the right to die</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A multinarrative approach</Subtitle> 1 A01 Fernando Lolas Stepke Lolas Stepke, Fernando Fernando Lolas Stepke The Institute for International Studies, Universidad de Chile 20 bioethics 20 death 20 dying 20 ortothanasia 20 right to die 01 Based upon a historical analysis of death and dying in different contexts and reflecting on the interfaces between religion, philosophy, and medicine, this paper elaborates on the ethical quandaries associated with the process of dying from three different narrative perspectives: first, second, and third person. A sound pragmatics of care is developed when these three narrative voices are integrated into a meaningful whole. The process becomes then a true ortothanasia: dying is in harmony with <i>personal expectations and desires</i>, the <i>needs of relevant others</i> and the regulations <i>implicit or explicit</i> in society. It is contended that beliefs and practices designed to fit into one of the narratives may not necessarily serve to explain phenomena in other discourses. A right ortothanasia demands an hermeneutics of death and a dialectics of dying. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.03gil 35 46 12 Chapter 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">In the wake of loss</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Grief, mourning and bereavement</Subtitle> 1 A01 Beatriz Gil-Juliá Gil-Juliá, Beatriz Beatriz Gil-Juliá Universitat Jaume I 2 A01 Rafael Ballester-Arnal Ballester-Arnal, Rafael Rafael Ballester-Arnal Universitat Jaume I 20 complicated grief 20 coping 20 grief experience 20 loss 20 psychological adjustment 01 The loss of a loved one may be considered as one of the major life-event stressors not only by its near inevitability but also by the high likelihood that we will go through it more than once in the course of a normal life span. Most people experience the loss as a natural response to a loved one&#8217;s death. Nevertheless, for a significant minority this process can be complicated. In the wake of loss, grief, mourning and bereavement appear to be synonymous terms although they differ in their clinical manifestations. Tackling the nuances linked to these concepts and the main issues involved in an adaptive or non-adaptive course of adjustment to the loss will be the aim of this chapter. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.p2 50 109 60 Section header 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Section&#160;II. Discourse analysis in health settings</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.04ban 49 66 18 Chapter 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The gift of continuing to live in the body of someone else</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">gift of continuing to live in the body of someone else</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">The discourse on organ transplants in Spanish press</Subtitle> 1 A01 Antonio M. Bañón Hernández Bañón Hernández, Antonio M. Antonio M. Bañón Hernández Universidad de Almería 20 critical discourse analysis 20 death 20 El País 20 health communication 20 organ transplants 01 This paper aims to identify the main discursive types used when talking about organ transplants and to observe the presence of the concept of <i>death</i> in these types. We will summarize the main lines of research on this issue and proceed to analyze a sample of journal documents on transplants published in the newspaper <i>El Pa&#237;s</i> in two different stages (1976&#8211;1986 and 2006&#8211;2016) and in which &#8216;death&#8217; appears in the headline or in the subtitle. The analysis is aimed at locating main themes, basic arguments and lexical structures used to refer to <i>death</i> in this information framework. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.05dom 67 84 18 Chapter 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Giving meaning to illness and death</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">End-of-life approaches in online stories by adolescents and young adults with cancer</Subtitle> 1 A01 Martí Domínguez Domínguez, Martí Martí Domínguez Universitat de València 2 A01 Lucía Sapiña Sapiña, Lucía Lucía Sapiña Universitat de València 20 adolescent cancer 20 aya 20 end-of-life narratives 20 online stories and death 01 In recent years, adolescents and young adults (<sc>aya</sc>s) with cancer and survivors of childhood cancer have started to organize as a collective in Europe. In this context, associations have included in their websites stories by young people diagnosed with cancer or who have gone through the disease. In this study, four of these websites (two in Spanish and two in English) are analyzed to obtain information on how <sc>aya</sc>s approach the subject of death in their stories. From the total of 128 studied stories, explicit references to death appear in 30. Discourse analysis will show us how <sc>aya</sc>s give meaning to the end of their own and their friends&#8217; life. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.06cle 85 96 12 Chapter 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Religion, collusion, and &#8220;fighting&#8221;</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Pediatric cancer end-of-life discourses in Catalonia, Spain</Subtitle> 1 A01 Ignasi Clemente Clemente, Ignasi Ignasi Clemente Louis Dundas Centre For Children's Palliative Care/Institute of Child Health, University College London/Hunter College, City University of New York 20 childhood 20 death 20 health communication 20 information non-disclosure 20 optimism 01 This chapter is based on an ethnographic study of communicative practices surrounding the death of a five-year-old pediatric cancer patient in a hospital in Catalonia (Spain). In the present case study, I highlight the significant co-occurring variation in how cancer and death are discussed or avoided within the same sociocultural. Specifically, I focus on three ways of talking about cancer and death: (1) using religious imagery, (2) co-creating the optimistic and hopeful collusion that everything is going well, and (3) using &#8220;let&#8217;s keep fighting&#8221; language. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.07kot 97 110 14 Chapter 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Rhetoric of death in clinical case reports and clinical tales</TitleText> 1 A01 Adéla Kotátková Kotátková, Adéla Adéla Kotátková Universitat Jaume I 20 clinical case report 20 clinical tale and Oliver Sacks 20 death 20 euphemism 20 rhetoric 20 taboo 01 Death is a taboo in Western civilization. Even healthcare fields, which are strongly familiar with the <i>end of life</i>, cannot avoid the tendency to soften the impact caused by talking or writing about death. Like anyone else, healthcare professionals who publish clinical case reports (<sc>ccr</sc>) tend to use euphemisms. They also have the option to use a technical lexicon that could be perceived as a range of euphemistic expressions. In this chapter we review the place of death in this professional genre. We also compare several aspects of the rhetoric of death in <sc>ccr</sc> and clinical tales. The latter, though frequently written by medical authors, are intended for a non-specialized public and have a literary communicative purpose. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.p3 114 194 81 Section header 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Section&#160;III. Death in literary texts</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.08puj 113 124 12 Chapter 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">&#8216;Letters to Lucilius&#8217; and death</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A self-help book written by Seneca</Subtitle> 1 A01 David Pujante Pujante, David David Pujante Universidad de Valladolid 20 death 20 epistolary genre and self-help genre 20 Seneca 20 stoicism 01 <i>Moral Letters to Lucilius</i> is a highly modern work in terms of both its generic complexity and its approach, which resembles a self-help treatise written in the twenty-first century. Seneca bases his letters on stoic approaches that may be very useful to today&#8217;s society, which lives facing outwards, frightened and stressed. The objective is to attain a moral freedom and an inner independence that removes the fear of death, among other benefits. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.09ske 125 146 22 Chapter 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Montaigne, the essay and the end of life</TitleText> 1 A01 John Skelton Skelton, John John Skelton Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham 20 death 20 essay 20 perspective 20 reflection 20 scepticism 01 This study builds on previous work in the way that death and dying are represented in writing in the Humanities by looking principally though not exclusively at the work of Montaigne. It is argued that while literary texts of course portray end of life issues, it is often either focussed on the death of an individual and the surrounding grief, or &#8220;death&#8221; is used for symbolic purposes, for example as evidence of a society in decay. The essay form, which was to a large extent created by Montaigne, offers the opportunity to explore end of life questions as concepts, and to consider through them how to die&#160;&#8211; and by extension, how to live. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.10lun 147 166 20 Chapter 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Memory, mothers and post-Freudian melancholia in Merc&#232; Rodoreda&#8217;s &#8216;Night and Fog&#8217;</TitleText> 1 A01 Montserrat Lunati I Maruny Lunati I Maruny, Montserrat Montserrat Lunati I Maruny Cardiff University/University of St Andrews 20 "desnéixer" 20 body 20 Holocaust / Shoa 20 Maria-Mercè Marçal 20 Mercè Rodoreda 20 multidirectional memory 20 Post-Freudian melancholia 20 prosthetic memory 20 psychoanalysis 20 representation of the maternal 20 twentieth-century Catalan literature 01 This chapter explores the relationship between post-Freudian melancholia, memory and mothers in the short story &#8220;Nit i boira&#8221; [&#8220;Night and Fog&#8221;] (1947) by Merc&#232; Rodoreda. I relate the story to the concept of &#8220;desn&#233;ixer&#8221; from Maria-Merc&#232; Mar&#231;al&#8217;s <i>Ra&#243; del cos</i> [<i>The Body&#8217;s Reason</i>] (2000). Both texts articulate the (im)possible task of freeing the maternal from controversial approaches to it such as that of classical psychoanalysis which determines the patriarchal rupture of the alleged plenitude of pre-Oedipal mother-child bond, or from the effects of a Western culture that, as Luce Irigaray claims, &#8220;repose sur le meurtre de la m&#232;re.&#8221; Alison Landsberg&#8217;s and Michael Rothberg&#8217;s views on memory help to read Rodoreda&#8217;s story, in which affection and loss are inevitably intertwined with history and politics. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.11sal 167 178 12 Chapter 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The scenography of death in contemporary poetry</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">scenography of death in contemporary poetry</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">The case of Vicent Andr&#233;s Estell&#233;s</Subtitle> 1 A01 Vicent Salvador Salvador, Vicent Vicent Salvador Universitat Jaume I 2 A01 Irene Mira Mira, Irene Irene Mira Universitat D'Alacant 20 domesticity 20 heterotopia 20 place 20 poetry and Vicent Andrés Estellés 20 spatiality 01 From the perspective of new studies on <i>spatiality</i>, which favours the concept of <i>place</i> (as opposed to the broader concept of <i>space</i>), representations of death are linked to specific places that are typical of each culture. In our current culture, places such as the sanatorium, the hospital, the dying house, the coffin and the cemetery are often related to the concept of <i>heterotopia</i> designed years ago by Michel Foucault. Some types of heterotopia that are related to death have a high performance in the semiotics of contemporary poetry. In his work, the Catalan poet Vicent Andr&#233;s Estell&#233;s (1924&#8211;1993) depicts scenes of death that integrate many of these places, objects, characters and sequences of actions. This scenography, which is strongly shaped by metaphorical and metonymic mappings, is an essential ingredient of his poetic semiosis as part of the treatment of the subject matter of death and dying. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.12mol 179 194 16 Chapter 16 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Beyond the limits of death</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Consciousness without bodies and simulacra of human beings in Science Fiction</Subtitle> 1 A01 Sara Molpeceres Molpeceres, Sara Sara Molpeceres Universidad de Valladolid 20 androids 20 comparative literature 20 constructivism 20 mind uploading and death 20 myth 20 posthumanism 20 Science Fiction 20 simulacra 20 thematology 01 In this paper I will discuss two ways of extending the human life-span that have been used in Science Fiction. The first involves uploading the human mind onto a computer after physical death. The second involves a sinister scenario in which clones, doubles or virtual simulacra or simulations are created to emulate living or dead human beings. My aim is to explore these two options and examine their epistemological and ontological implications: being human without a body; the nature of an uploaded mind beyond the body&#8217;s physical death; and the role of experience, memory and emotion in the construction of human identity. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.index 195 196 2 Miscellaneous 17 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20200409 2020 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027205377 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 21 01 00 90.00 EUR R 01 00 76.00 GBP Z 01 gen 00 135.00 USD S 708026307 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code IVITRA 26 Hb 15 9789027205377 13 2019055090 BB 01 IVITRA 02 2211-5412 IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 26 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Discourses on the Edges of Life</TitleText> 01 ivitra.26 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/ivitra.26 1 B01 Vicent Salvador Salvador, Vicent Vicent Salvador Universitat Jaume I 2 B01 Adéla Kotátková Kotátková, Adéla Adéla Kotátková Universitat Jaume I 3 B01 Ignasi Clemente Clemente, Ignasi Ignasi Clemente Louis Dundas Centre For Children’s Palliative Care, Institute of Child Health, University College London, Hunter College, City University of New York 01 eng 202 vi 196 LAN009030 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.NAR Narrative Studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIT.THEOR Theoretical literature & literary studies 24 JB Subject Scheme PHIL.GEN Philosophy 06 01 Death inhabits our collective imaginary, even though sometimes, like a squatter, it hides discretely in order to avoid conflicts. It is undoubtedly a multi-faceted subject of study, which requires consideration from an interdisciplinary perspective. <br />This book deals with this phenomenon, and more specifically with the discourses that surround – and construct our perspectives and understanding of – death and dying. Of course, the present volume does not attempt to be exhaustive, and considers the subject from several standpoints, including linguistics, anthropology, history of medicine, and importantly, literary studies. It combines various points of view and different methodologies of knowledge, in the hope that they come together to constitute a written dialogue –or more precisely, a <i>polylogue</i>. <br />The ordering of the texts in this volume provides readers with an itinerary that begins with more general approaches, such as a historical presentation of the medicalisation of death and an in-depth reflection on the best way to die, and ends with studies of specific literary works from different periods. <br />The itinerary that this book provides is framed by a discourse analysis-based overview that explores how different approaches to death and dying intersect and complement each other in an interdisciplinary endeavour. This analysis focuses on literary and non-literary genres in order to shed some new light on a topic that is inexhaustible because of its sociocultural relevance. 05 This volume’s contribution to knowledge is undeniable: especially for its insistence on aspects such as narrativity, the sociocultural construction of beliefs and practices related to death, and the progressive medicalization in today's world. Dominic Keown, University of Cambridge 05 This book combines the epistemological interests of psychology, history of medicine, ethnography, ethics, language sciences, and literary criticism. Manuel Pérez-Saldanya, Universitat de València 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/ivitra.26.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027205377.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027205377.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/ivitra.26.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/ivitra.26.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/ivitra.26.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/ivitra.26.hb.png 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.int 1 8 8 Chapter 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Presentation</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Discourses on death and dying</Subtitle> 1 A01 Vicent Salvador Salvador, Vicent Vicent Salvador Universitat Jaume I 2 A01 Adéla Kotátková Kotátková, Adéla Adéla Kotátková Universitat Jaume I 3 A01 Ignasi Clemente Clemente, Ignasi Ignasi Clemente Louis Dundas Centre For Children's Palliative Care, Institute of Child Health, University College London, and Hunter College, City University of New York 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.p1 12 45 34 Section header 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Section&#160;I. Three disciplinary approaches to the subject of death</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.01bar 11 22 12 Chapter 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Death</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">From myth to the laboratory</Subtitle> 1 A01 Josep Lluis Barona Barona, Josep Lluis Josep Lluis Barona Universitat de València 20 culture 20 death 20 medicine and technology 20 myth 01 Death is a biological event which forms an essential part of culture. All human societies have attributed some meaning to death in myth, religion, philosophy or science. The various forms of art have also represented death as an essential part of the human condition. This article discusses the cultural, social and medical constructions of death, starting with the origin myth and the contradiction between death and eternal life. It explores funeral rites and parish registers, examines death as an important social phenomenon in modern societies and considers the meaning of civil registries as instruments of social identity and legitimacy. Finally, it reflects on medicine&#8217;s power over death, death&#8217;s biological dimension and attempts to objectify signs of death. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.02lol 23 34 12 Chapter 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Moral ortothanasia and the right to die</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A multinarrative approach</Subtitle> 1 A01 Fernando Lolas Stepke Lolas Stepke, Fernando Fernando Lolas Stepke The Institute for International Studies, Universidad de Chile 20 bioethics 20 death 20 dying 20 ortothanasia 20 right to die 01 Based upon a historical analysis of death and dying in different contexts and reflecting on the interfaces between religion, philosophy, and medicine, this paper elaborates on the ethical quandaries associated with the process of dying from three different narrative perspectives: first, second, and third person. A sound pragmatics of care is developed when these three narrative voices are integrated into a meaningful whole. The process becomes then a true ortothanasia: dying is in harmony with <i>personal expectations and desires</i>, the <i>needs of relevant others</i> and the regulations <i>implicit or explicit</i> in society. It is contended that beliefs and practices designed to fit into one of the narratives may not necessarily serve to explain phenomena in other discourses. A right ortothanasia demands an hermeneutics of death and a dialectics of dying. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.03gil 35 46 12 Chapter 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">In the wake of loss</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Grief, mourning and bereavement</Subtitle> 1 A01 Beatriz Gil-Juliá Gil-Juliá, Beatriz Beatriz Gil-Juliá Universitat Jaume I 2 A01 Rafael Ballester-Arnal Ballester-Arnal, Rafael Rafael Ballester-Arnal Universitat Jaume I 20 complicated grief 20 coping 20 grief experience 20 loss 20 psychological adjustment 01 The loss of a loved one may be considered as one of the major life-event stressors not only by its near inevitability but also by the high likelihood that we will go through it more than once in the course of a normal life span. Most people experience the loss as a natural response to a loved one&#8217;s death. Nevertheless, for a significant minority this process can be complicated. In the wake of loss, grief, mourning and bereavement appear to be synonymous terms although they differ in their clinical manifestations. Tackling the nuances linked to these concepts and the main issues involved in an adaptive or non-adaptive course of adjustment to the loss will be the aim of this chapter. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.p2 50 109 60 Section header 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Section&#160;II. Discourse analysis in health settings</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.04ban 49 66 18 Chapter 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The gift of continuing to live in the body of someone else</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">gift of continuing to live in the body of someone else</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">The discourse on organ transplants in Spanish press</Subtitle> 1 A01 Antonio M. Bañón Hernández Bañón Hernández, Antonio M. Antonio M. Bañón Hernández Universidad de Almería 20 critical discourse analysis 20 death 20 El País 20 health communication 20 organ transplants 01 This paper aims to identify the main discursive types used when talking about organ transplants and to observe the presence of the concept of <i>death</i> in these types. We will summarize the main lines of research on this issue and proceed to analyze a sample of journal documents on transplants published in the newspaper <i>El Pa&#237;s</i> in two different stages (1976&#8211;1986 and 2006&#8211;2016) and in which &#8216;death&#8217; appears in the headline or in the subtitle. The analysis is aimed at locating main themes, basic arguments and lexical structures used to refer to <i>death</i> in this information framework. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.05dom 67 84 18 Chapter 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Giving meaning to illness and death</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">End-of-life approaches in online stories by adolescents and young adults with cancer</Subtitle> 1 A01 Martí Domínguez Domínguez, Martí Martí Domínguez Universitat de València 2 A01 Lucía Sapiña Sapiña, Lucía Lucía Sapiña Universitat de València 20 adolescent cancer 20 aya 20 end-of-life narratives 20 online stories and death 01 In recent years, adolescents and young adults (<sc>aya</sc>s) with cancer and survivors of childhood cancer have started to organize as a collective in Europe. In this context, associations have included in their websites stories by young people diagnosed with cancer or who have gone through the disease. In this study, four of these websites (two in Spanish and two in English) are analyzed to obtain information on how <sc>aya</sc>s approach the subject of death in their stories. From the total of 128 studied stories, explicit references to death appear in 30. Discourse analysis will show us how <sc>aya</sc>s give meaning to the end of their own and their friends&#8217; life. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.06cle 85 96 12 Chapter 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Religion, collusion, and &#8220;fighting&#8221;</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Pediatric cancer end-of-life discourses in Catalonia, Spain</Subtitle> 1 A01 Ignasi Clemente Clemente, Ignasi Ignasi Clemente Louis Dundas Centre For Children's Palliative Care/Institute of Child Health, University College London/Hunter College, City University of New York 20 childhood 20 death 20 health communication 20 information non-disclosure 20 optimism 01 This chapter is based on an ethnographic study of communicative practices surrounding the death of a five-year-old pediatric cancer patient in a hospital in Catalonia (Spain). In the present case study, I highlight the significant co-occurring variation in how cancer and death are discussed or avoided within the same sociocultural. Specifically, I focus on three ways of talking about cancer and death: (1) using religious imagery, (2) co-creating the optimistic and hopeful collusion that everything is going well, and (3) using &#8220;let&#8217;s keep fighting&#8221; language. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.07kot 97 110 14 Chapter 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Rhetoric of death in clinical case reports and clinical tales</TitleText> 1 A01 Adéla Kotátková Kotátková, Adéla Adéla Kotátková Universitat Jaume I 20 clinical case report 20 clinical tale and Oliver Sacks 20 death 20 euphemism 20 rhetoric 20 taboo 01 Death is a taboo in Western civilization. Even healthcare fields, which are strongly familiar with the <i>end of life</i>, cannot avoid the tendency to soften the impact caused by talking or writing about death. Like anyone else, healthcare professionals who publish clinical case reports (<sc>ccr</sc>) tend to use euphemisms. They also have the option to use a technical lexicon that could be perceived as a range of euphemistic expressions. In this chapter we review the place of death in this professional genre. We also compare several aspects of the rhetoric of death in <sc>ccr</sc> and clinical tales. The latter, though frequently written by medical authors, are intended for a non-specialized public and have a literary communicative purpose. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.p3 114 194 81 Section header 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Section&#160;III. Death in literary texts</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.08puj 113 124 12 Chapter 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">&#8216;Letters to Lucilius&#8217; and death</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A self-help book written by Seneca</Subtitle> 1 A01 David Pujante Pujante, David David Pujante Universidad de Valladolid 20 death 20 epistolary genre and self-help genre 20 Seneca 20 stoicism 01 <i>Moral Letters to Lucilius</i> is a highly modern work in terms of both its generic complexity and its approach, which resembles a self-help treatise written in the twenty-first century. Seneca bases his letters on stoic approaches that may be very useful to today&#8217;s society, which lives facing outwards, frightened and stressed. The objective is to attain a moral freedom and an inner independence that removes the fear of death, among other benefits. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.09ske 125 146 22 Chapter 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Montaigne, the essay and the end of life</TitleText> 1 A01 John Skelton Skelton, John John Skelton Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham 20 death 20 essay 20 perspective 20 reflection 20 scepticism 01 This study builds on previous work in the way that death and dying are represented in writing in the Humanities by looking principally though not exclusively at the work of Montaigne. It is argued that while literary texts of course portray end of life issues, it is often either focussed on the death of an individual and the surrounding grief, or &#8220;death&#8221; is used for symbolic purposes, for example as evidence of a society in decay. The essay form, which was to a large extent created by Montaigne, offers the opportunity to explore end of life questions as concepts, and to consider through them how to die&#160;&#8211; and by extension, how to live. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.10lun 147 166 20 Chapter 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Memory, mothers and post-Freudian melancholia in Merc&#232; Rodoreda&#8217;s &#8216;Night and Fog&#8217;</TitleText> 1 A01 Montserrat Lunati I Maruny Lunati I Maruny, Montserrat Montserrat Lunati I Maruny Cardiff University/University of St Andrews 20 "desnéixer" 20 body 20 Holocaust / Shoa 20 Maria-Mercè Marçal 20 Mercè Rodoreda 20 multidirectional memory 20 Post-Freudian melancholia 20 prosthetic memory 20 psychoanalysis 20 representation of the maternal 20 twentieth-century Catalan literature 01 This chapter explores the relationship between post-Freudian melancholia, memory and mothers in the short story &#8220;Nit i boira&#8221; [&#8220;Night and Fog&#8221;] (1947) by Merc&#232; Rodoreda. I relate the story to the concept of &#8220;desn&#233;ixer&#8221; from Maria-Merc&#232; Mar&#231;al&#8217;s <i>Ra&#243; del cos</i> [<i>The Body&#8217;s Reason</i>] (2000). Both texts articulate the (im)possible task of freeing the maternal from controversial approaches to it such as that of classical psychoanalysis which determines the patriarchal rupture of the alleged plenitude of pre-Oedipal mother-child bond, or from the effects of a Western culture that, as Luce Irigaray claims, &#8220;repose sur le meurtre de la m&#232;re.&#8221; Alison Landsberg&#8217;s and Michael Rothberg&#8217;s views on memory help to read Rodoreda&#8217;s story, in which affection and loss are inevitably intertwined with history and politics. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.11sal 167 178 12 Chapter 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The scenography of death in contemporary poetry</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">scenography of death in contemporary poetry</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">The case of Vicent Andr&#233;s Estell&#233;s</Subtitle> 1 A01 Vicent Salvador Salvador, Vicent Vicent Salvador Universitat Jaume I 2 A01 Irene Mira Mira, Irene Irene Mira Universitat D'Alacant 20 domesticity 20 heterotopia 20 place 20 poetry and Vicent Andrés Estellés 20 spatiality 01 From the perspective of new studies on <i>spatiality</i>, which favours the concept of <i>place</i> (as opposed to the broader concept of <i>space</i>), representations of death are linked to specific places that are typical of each culture. In our current culture, places such as the sanatorium, the hospital, the dying house, the coffin and the cemetery are often related to the concept of <i>heterotopia</i> designed years ago by Michel Foucault. Some types of heterotopia that are related to death have a high performance in the semiotics of contemporary poetry. In his work, the Catalan poet Vicent Andr&#233;s Estell&#233;s (1924&#8211;1993) depicts scenes of death that integrate many of these places, objects, characters and sequences of actions. This scenography, which is strongly shaped by metaphorical and metonymic mappings, is an essential ingredient of his poetic semiosis as part of the treatment of the subject matter of death and dying. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.12mol 179 194 16 Chapter 16 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Beyond the limits of death</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Consciousness without bodies and simulacra of human beings in Science Fiction</Subtitle> 1 A01 Sara Molpeceres Molpeceres, Sara Sara Molpeceres Universidad de Valladolid 20 androids 20 comparative literature 20 constructivism 20 mind uploading and death 20 myth 20 posthumanism 20 Science Fiction 20 simulacra 20 thematology 01 In this paper I will discuss two ways of extending the human life-span that have been used in Science Fiction. The first involves uploading the human mind onto a computer after physical death. The second involves a sinister scenario in which clones, doubles or virtual simulacra or simulations are created to emulate living or dead human beings. My aim is to explore these two options and examine their epistemological and ontological implications: being human without a body; the nature of an uploaded mind beyond the body&#8217;s physical death; and the role of experience, memory and emotion in the construction of human identity. 10 01 JB code ivitra.26.index 195 196 2 Miscellaneous 17 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20200409 2020 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 08 505 gr 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 01 WORLD US CA MX 21 52 22 01 02 JB 1 00 90.00 EUR R 02 02 JB 1 00 95.40 EUR R 01 JB 10 bebc +44 1202 712 934 +44 1202 712 913 sales@bebc.co.uk 03 GB 21 22 02 02 JB 1 00 76.00 GBP Z 01 JB 2 John Benjamins North America +1 800 562-5666 +1 703 661-1501 benjamins@presswarehouse.com 01 https://benjamins.com 01 US CA MX 21 1 22 01 gen 02 JB 1 00 135.00 USD