616026308 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code IVITRA 26 Eb 15 9789027261373 06 10.1075/ivitra.26 13 2019055091 00 EA E107 10 01 JB code IVITRA 02 2211-5412 02 26.00 01 02 IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 11 01 JB code jbe-all 01 02 Full EBA collection (ca. 4,200 titles) 11 01 JB code jbe-eba-2023 01 02 Compact EBA Collection 2023 (ca. 700 titles, starting 2018) 11 01 JB code jbe-2020 01 02 2020 collection (131 titles) 11 01 JB code jbe-eba-2024 01 02 Compact EBA Collection 2024 (ca. 600 titles, starting 2019) 01 01 Discourses on the Edges of Life Discourses on the Edges of Life 1 B01 01 JB code 386374968 Vicent Salvador Salvador, Vicent Vicent Salvador Universitat Jaume I 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/386374968 2 B01 01 JB code 343374970 Adéla Kotátková Kotátková, Adéla Adéla Kotátková Universitat Jaume I 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/343374970 3 B01 01 JB code 654374971 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 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/654374971 01 eng 11 202 03 03 vi 03 00 196 03 01 23 306.9 03 2020 HQ1073 04 Death. 04 Death--Social aspects. 04 Communication in medicine. 04 Death in literature. 04 Discourse analysis. 04 Discourse analysis, Literary. 10 LAN009030 12 CFG 24 JB code LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB code LIN.NAR Narrative Studies 24 JB code PHIL.GEN Philosophy 24 JB code LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 24 JB code LIT.THEOR Theoretical literature & literary studies 01 06 02 00 This book deals 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, but it considers the subject from several standpoints, including linguistics, anthropology, history of medicine, and literary studies. 03 00 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.
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 polylogue.
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.
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.
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01 01 JB code ivitra.26.int 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.int 1 8 8 Chapter 1 01 04 Presentation Presentation 01 04 Discourses on death and dying Discourses on death and dying 1 A01 01 JB code 525399479 Vicent Salvador Salvador, Vicent Vicent Salvador Universitat Jaume I 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/525399479 2 A01 01 JB code 807399480 Adéla Kotátková Kotátková, Adéla Adéla Kotátková Universitat Jaume I 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/807399480 3 A01 01 JB code 51399481 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 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/51399481 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.p1 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.p1 12 45 34 Section header 2 01 04 Section I. Three disciplinary approaches to the subject of death Section I. Three disciplinary approaches to the subject of death 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.01bar 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.01bar 11 22 12 Chapter 3 01 04 Death Death 01 04 From myth to the laboratory From myth to the laboratory 1 A01 01 JB code 548399482 Josep Lluis Barona Barona, Josep Lluis Josep Lluis Barona Universitat de València 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/548399482 30 00

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’s power over death, death’s biological dimension and attempts to objectify signs of death.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.02lol 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.02lol 23 34 12 Chapter 4 01 04 Moral ortothanasia and the right to die Moral ortothanasia and the right to die 01 04 A multinarrative approach A multinarrative approach 1 A01 01 JB code 943399483 Fernando Lolas Stepke Lolas Stepke, Fernando Fernando Lolas Stepke The Institute for International Studies, Universidad de Chile 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/943399483 30 00

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 personal expectations and desires, the needs of relevant others and the regulations implicit or explicit 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.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.03gil 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.03gil 35 46 12 Chapter 5 01 04 In the wake of loss In the wake of loss 01 04 Grief, mourning and bereavement Grief, mourning and bereavement 1 A01 01 JB code 871399484 Beatriz Gil-Juliá Gil-Juliá, Beatriz Beatriz Gil-Juliá Universitat Jaume I 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/871399484 2 A01 01 JB code 95399485 Rafael Ballester-Arnal Ballester-Arnal, Rafael Rafael Ballester-Arnal Universitat Jaume I 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/95399485 30 00

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’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.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.p2 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.p2 50 109 60 Section header 6 01 04 Section II. Discourse analysis in health settings Section II. Discourse analysis in health settings 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.04ban 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.04ban 49 66 18 Chapter 7 01 04 The gift of continuing to live in the body of someone else The gift of continuing to live in the body of someone else 01 04 The discourse on organ transplants in Spanish press The discourse on organ transplants in Spanish press 1 A01 01 JB code 463399486 Antonio M. Bañón Hernández Bañón Hernández, Antonio M. Antonio M. Bañón Hernández Universidad de Almería 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/463399486 30 00

This paper aims to identify the main discursive types used when talking about organ transplants and to observe the presence of the concept of death 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 El País in two different stages (1976–1986 and 2006–2016) and in which ‘death’ 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 death in this information framework.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.05dom 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.05dom 67 84 18 Chapter 8 01 04 Giving meaning to illness and death Giving meaning to illness and death 01 04 End-of-life approaches in online stories by adolescents and young adults with cancer End-of-life approaches in online stories by adolescents and young adults with cancer 1 A01 01 JB code 276399487 Martí Domínguez Domínguez, Martí Martí Domínguez Universitat de València 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/276399487 2 A01 01 JB code 593399488 Lucía Sapiña Sapiña, Lucía Lucía Sapiña Universitat de València 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/593399488 30 00

In recent years, adolescents and young adults (ayas) 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 ayas 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 ayas give meaning to the end of their own and their friends’ life.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.06cle 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.06cle 85 96 12 Chapter 9 01 04 Religion, collusion, and "fighting" Religion, collusion, and “fighting” 01 04 Pediatric cancer end-of-life discourses in Catalonia, Spain Pediatric cancer end-of-life discourses in Catalonia, Spain 1 A01 01 JB code 742399489 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 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/742399489 30 00

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 “let’s keep fighting” language.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.07kot 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.07kot 97 110 14 Chapter 10 01 04 Rhetoric of death in clinical case reports and clinical tales Rhetoric of death in clinical case reports and clinical tales 1 A01 01 JB code 115399490 Adéla Kotátková Kotátková, Adéla Adéla Kotátková Universitat Jaume I 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/115399490 30 00

Death is a taboo in Western civilization. Even healthcare fields, which are strongly familiar with the end of life, 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 (ccr) 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 ccr and clinical tales. The latter, though frequently written by medical authors, are intended for a non-specialized public and have a literary communicative purpose.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.p3 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.p3 114 194 81 Section header 11 01 04 Section III. Death in literary texts Section III. Death in literary texts 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.08puj 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.08puj 113 124 12 Chapter 12 01 04 'Letters to Lucilius' and death ‘Letters to Lucilius’ and death 01 04 A self-help book written by Seneca A self-help book written by Seneca 1 A01 01 JB code 75399491 David Pujante Pujante, David David Pujante Universidad de Valladolid 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/75399491 30 00

Moral Letters to Lucilius 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’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.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.09ske 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.09ske 125 146 22 Chapter 13 01 04 Montaigne, the essay and the end of life Montaigne, the essay and the end of life 1 A01 01 JB code 12399492 John Skelton Skelton, John John Skelton Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/12399492 30 00

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 “death” 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 – and by extension, how to live.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.10lun 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.10lun 147 166 20 Chapter 14 01 04 Memory, mothers and post-Freudian melancholia in Merce Rodoreda's 'Night and Fog' Memory, mothers and post-Freudian melancholia in Mercè Rodoreda’s ‘Night and Fog’ 1 A01 01 JB code 1399493 Montserrat Lunati I Maruny Lunati I Maruny, Montserrat Montserrat Lunati I Maruny Cardiff University/University of St Andrews 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/1399493 30 00

This chapter explores the relationship between post-Freudian melancholia, memory and mothers in the short story “Nit i boira” [“Night and Fog”] (1947) by Mercè Rodoreda. I relate the story to the concept of “desnéixer” from Maria-Mercè Marçal’s Raó del cos [The Body’s Reason] (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, “repose sur le meurtre de la mère.” Alison Landsberg’s and Michael Rothberg’s views on memory help to read Rodoreda’s story, in which affection and loss are inevitably intertwined with history and politics.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.11sal 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.11sal 167 178 12 Chapter 15 01 04 The scenography of death in contemporary poetry The scenography of death in contemporary poetry 01 04 The case of Vicent Andres Estelles The case of Vicent Andrés Estellés 1 A01 01 JB code 568399494 Vicent Salvador Salvador, Vicent Vicent Salvador Universitat Jaume I 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/568399494 2 A01 01 JB code 742399495 Irene Mira Mira, Irene Irene Mira Universitat D'Alacant 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/742399495 30 00

From the perspective of new studies on spatiality, which favours the concept of place (as opposed to the broader concept of space), 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 heterotopia 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 Andrés Estellés (1924–1993) 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.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.12mol 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.12mol 179 194 16 Chapter 16 01 04 Beyond the limits of death Beyond the limits of death 01 04 Consciousness without bodies and simulacra of human beings in Science Fiction Consciousness without bodies and simulacra of human beings in Science Fiction 1 A01 01 JB code 813399496 Sara Molpeceres Molpeceres, Sara Sara Molpeceres Universidad de Valladolid 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/813399496 30 00

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’s physical death; and the role of experience, memory and emotion in the construction of human identity.

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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 polylogue.
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.
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.
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01 01 JB code ivitra.26.int 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.int 1 8 8 Chapter 1 01 04 Presentation Presentation 01 04 Discourses on death and dying Discourses on death and dying 1 A01 01 JB code 525399479 Vicent Salvador Salvador, Vicent Vicent Salvador Universitat Jaume I 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/525399479 2 A01 01 JB code 807399480 Adéla Kotátková Kotátková, Adéla Adéla Kotátková Universitat Jaume I 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/807399480 3 A01 01 JB code 51399481 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 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/51399481 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.p1 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.p1 12 45 34 Section header 2 01 04 Section I. Three disciplinary approaches to the subject of death Section I. Three disciplinary approaches to the subject of death 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.01bar 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.01bar 11 22 12 Chapter 3 01 04 Death Death 01 04 From myth to the laboratory From myth to the laboratory 1 A01 01 JB code 548399482 Josep Lluis Barona Barona, Josep Lluis Josep Lluis Barona Universitat de València 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/548399482 30 00

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’s power over death, death’s biological dimension and attempts to objectify signs of death.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.02lol 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.02lol 23 34 12 Chapter 4 01 04 Moral ortothanasia and the right to die Moral ortothanasia and the right to die 01 04 A multinarrative approach A multinarrative approach 1 A01 01 JB code 943399483 Fernando Lolas Stepke Lolas Stepke, Fernando Fernando Lolas Stepke The Institute for International Studies, Universidad de Chile 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/943399483 30 00

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 personal expectations and desires, the needs of relevant others and the regulations implicit or explicit 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.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.03gil 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.03gil 35 46 12 Chapter 5 01 04 In the wake of loss In the wake of loss 01 04 Grief, mourning and bereavement Grief, mourning and bereavement 1 A01 01 JB code 871399484 Beatriz Gil-Juliá Gil-Juliá, Beatriz Beatriz Gil-Juliá Universitat Jaume I 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/871399484 2 A01 01 JB code 95399485 Rafael Ballester-Arnal Ballester-Arnal, Rafael Rafael Ballester-Arnal Universitat Jaume I 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/95399485 30 00

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’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.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.p2 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.p2 50 109 60 Section header 6 01 04 Section II. Discourse analysis in health settings Section II. Discourse analysis in health settings 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.04ban 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.04ban 49 66 18 Chapter 7 01 04 The gift of continuing to live in the body of someone else The gift of continuing to live in the body of someone else 01 04 The discourse on organ transplants in Spanish press The discourse on organ transplants in Spanish press 1 A01 01 JB code 463399486 Antonio M. Bañón Hernández Bañón Hernández, Antonio M. Antonio M. Bañón Hernández Universidad de Almería 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/463399486 30 00

This paper aims to identify the main discursive types used when talking about organ transplants and to observe the presence of the concept of death 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 El País in two different stages (1976–1986 and 2006–2016) and in which ‘death’ 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 death in this information framework.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.05dom 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.05dom 67 84 18 Chapter 8 01 04 Giving meaning to illness and death Giving meaning to illness and death 01 04 End-of-life approaches in online stories by adolescents and young adults with cancer End-of-life approaches in online stories by adolescents and young adults with cancer 1 A01 01 JB code 276399487 Martí Domínguez Domínguez, Martí Martí Domínguez Universitat de València 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/276399487 2 A01 01 JB code 593399488 Lucía Sapiña Sapiña, Lucía Lucía Sapiña Universitat de València 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/593399488 30 00

In recent years, adolescents and young adults (ayas) 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 ayas 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 ayas give meaning to the end of their own and their friends’ life.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.06cle 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.06cle 85 96 12 Chapter 9 01 04 Religion, collusion, and "fighting" Religion, collusion, and “fighting” 01 04 Pediatric cancer end-of-life discourses in Catalonia, Spain Pediatric cancer end-of-life discourses in Catalonia, Spain 1 A01 01 JB code 742399489 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 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/742399489 30 00

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 “let’s keep fighting” language.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.07kot 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.07kot 97 110 14 Chapter 10 01 04 Rhetoric of death in clinical case reports and clinical tales Rhetoric of death in clinical case reports and clinical tales 1 A01 01 JB code 115399490 Adéla Kotátková Kotátková, Adéla Adéla Kotátková Universitat Jaume I 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/115399490 30 00

Death is a taboo in Western civilization. Even healthcare fields, which are strongly familiar with the end of life, 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 (ccr) 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 ccr and clinical tales. The latter, though frequently written by medical authors, are intended for a non-specialized public and have a literary communicative purpose.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.p3 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.p3 114 194 81 Section header 11 01 04 Section III. Death in literary texts Section III. Death in literary texts 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.08puj 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.08puj 113 124 12 Chapter 12 01 04 'Letters to Lucilius' and death ‘Letters to Lucilius’ and death 01 04 A self-help book written by Seneca A self-help book written by Seneca 1 A01 01 JB code 75399491 David Pujante Pujante, David David Pujante Universidad de Valladolid 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/75399491 30 00

Moral Letters to Lucilius 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’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.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.09ske 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.09ske 125 146 22 Chapter 13 01 04 Montaigne, the essay and the end of life Montaigne, the essay and the end of life 1 A01 01 JB code 12399492 John Skelton Skelton, John John Skelton Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/12399492 30 00

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 “death” 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 – and by extension, how to live.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.10lun 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.10lun 147 166 20 Chapter 14 01 04 Memory, mothers and post-Freudian melancholia in Merce Rodoreda's 'Night and Fog' Memory, mothers and post-Freudian melancholia in Mercè Rodoreda’s ‘Night and Fog’ 1 A01 01 JB code 1399493 Montserrat Lunati I Maruny Lunati I Maruny, Montserrat Montserrat Lunati I Maruny Cardiff University/University of St Andrews 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/1399493 30 00

This chapter explores the relationship between post-Freudian melancholia, memory and mothers in the short story “Nit i boira” [“Night and Fog”] (1947) by Mercè Rodoreda. I relate the story to the concept of “desnéixer” from Maria-Mercè Marçal’s Raó del cos [The Body’s Reason] (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, “repose sur le meurtre de la mère.” Alison Landsberg’s and Michael Rothberg’s views on memory help to read Rodoreda’s story, in which affection and loss are inevitably intertwined with history and politics.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.11sal 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.11sal 167 178 12 Chapter 15 01 04 The scenography of death in contemporary poetry The scenography of death in contemporary poetry 01 04 The case of Vicent Andres Estelles The case of Vicent Andrés Estellés 1 A01 01 JB code 568399494 Vicent Salvador Salvador, Vicent Vicent Salvador Universitat Jaume I 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/568399494 2 A01 01 JB code 742399495 Irene Mira Mira, Irene Irene Mira Universitat D'Alacant 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/742399495 30 00

From the perspective of new studies on spatiality, which favours the concept of place (as opposed to the broader concept of space), 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 heterotopia 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 Andrés Estellés (1924–1993) 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.

01 01 JB code ivitra.26.12mol 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.12mol 179 194 16 Chapter 16 01 04 Beyond the limits of death Beyond the limits of death 01 04 Consciousness without bodies and simulacra of human beings in Science Fiction Consciousness without bodies and simulacra of human beings in Science Fiction 1 A01 01 JB code 813399496 Sara Molpeceres Molpeceres, Sara Sara Molpeceres Universidad de Valladolid 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/813399496 30 00

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’s physical death; and the role of experience, memory and emotion in the construction of human identity.

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849026651 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code IVITRA 26 GE 15 9789027261373 06 10.1075/ivitra.26 13 2019055091 00 EA E133 10 01 JB code IVITRA 02 JB code 2211-5412 02 26.00 01 02 IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 01 01 Discourses on the Edges of Life Discourses on the Edges of Life 1 B01 01 JB code 386374968 Vicent Salvador Salvador, Vicent Vicent Salvador Universitat Jaume I 2 B01 01 JB code 343374970 Adéla Kotátková Kotátková, Adéla Adéla Kotátková Universitat Jaume I 3 B01 01 JB code 654374971 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 11 202 03 03 vi 03 00 196 03 24 JB code LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB code LIN.NAR Narrative Studies 24 JB code PHIL.GEN Philosophy 24 JB code LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 24 JB code LIT.THEOR Theoretical literature & literary studies 10 LAN009030 12 CFG 01 06 02 00 This book deals 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, but it considers the subject from several standpoints, including linguistics, anthropology, history of medicine, and literary studies. 03 00 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.
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 polylogue.
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.
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.
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01 01 JB code ivitra.26.int 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.int 2 7 6 Chapter 1 01 04 Presentation Presentation 01 04 Discourses on death and dying Discourses on death and dying 1 A01 01 JB code 525399479 Vicent Salvador Salvador, Vicent Vicent Salvador Universitat Jaume I 2 A01 01 JB code 807399480 Adéla Kotátková Kotátková, Adéla Adéla Kotátková Universitat Jaume I 3 A01 01 JB code 51399481 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 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.p1 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.p1 12 45 34 Section header 2 01 04 Section I. Three disciplinary approaches to the subject of death Section I. Three disciplinary approaches to the subject of death 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.01bar 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.01bar 12 21 10 Chapter 3 01 04 Death Death 01 04 From myth to the laboratory From myth to the laboratory 1 A01 01 JB code 548399482 Josep Lluis Barona Barona, Josep Lluis Josep Lluis Barona Universitat de València 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.02lol 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.02lol 24 33 10 Chapter 4 01 04 Moral ortothanasia and the right to die Moral ortothanasia and the right to die 01 04 A multinarrative approach A multinarrative approach 1 A01 01 JB code 943399483 Fernando Lolas Stepke Lolas Stepke, Fernando Fernando Lolas Stepke The Institute for International Studies, Universidad de Chile 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.03gil 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.03gil 36 45 10 Chapter 5 01 04 In the wake of loss In the wake of loss 01 04 Grief, mourning and bereavement Grief, mourning and bereavement 1 A01 01 JB code 871399484 Beatriz Gil-Juliá Gil-Juliá, Beatriz Beatriz Gil-Juliá Universitat Jaume I 2 A01 01 JB code 95399485 Rafael Ballester-Arnal Ballester-Arnal, Rafael Rafael Ballester-Arnal Universitat Jaume I 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.p2 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.p2 50 109 60 Section header 6 01 04 Section II. Discourse analysis in health settings Section II. Discourse analysis in health settings 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.04ban 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.04ban 50 65 16 Chapter 7 01 04 The gift of continuing to live in the body of someone else The gift of continuing to live in the body of someone else 01 04 The discourse on organ transplants in Spanish press The discourse on organ transplants in Spanish press 1 A01 01 JB code 463399486 Antonio M. Bañón Hernández Bañón Hernández, Antonio M. Antonio M. Bañón Hernández Universidad de Almería 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.05dom 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.05dom 68 83 16 Chapter 8 01 04 Giving meaning to illness and death Giving meaning to illness and death 01 04 End-of-life approaches in online stories by adolescents and young adults with cancer End-of-life approaches in online stories by adolescents and young adults with cancer 1 A01 01 JB code 276399487 Martí Domínguez Domínguez, Martí Martí Domínguez Universitat de València 2 A01 01 JB code 593399488 Lucía Sapiña Sapiña, Lucía Lucía Sapiña Universitat de València 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.06cle 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.06cle 86 95 10 Chapter 9 01 04 Religion, collusion, and "fighting" Religion, collusion, and “fighting” 01 04 Pediatric cancer end-of-life discourses in Catalonia, Spain Pediatric cancer end-of-life discourses in Catalonia, Spain 1 A01 01 JB code 742399489 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 01 JB code ivitra.26.07kot 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.07kot 98 109 12 Chapter 10 01 04 Rhetoric of death in clinical case reports and clinical tales Rhetoric of death in clinical case reports and clinical tales 1 A01 01 JB code 115399490 Adéla Kotátková Kotátková, Adéla Adéla Kotátková Universitat Jaume I 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.p3 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.p3 114 194 81 Section header 11 01 04 Section III. Death in literary texts Section III. Death in literary texts 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.08puj 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.08puj 114 124 11 Chapter 12 01 04 'Letters to Lucilius' and death ‘Letters to Lucilius’ and death 01 04 A self-help book written by Seneca A self-help book written by Seneca 1 A01 01 JB code 75399491 David Pujante Pujante, David David Pujante Universidad de Valladolid 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.09ske 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.09ske 126 145 20 Chapter 13 01 04 Montaigne, the essay and the end of life Montaigne, the essay and the end of life 1 A01 01 JB code 12399492 John Skelton Skelton, John John Skelton Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.10lun 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.10lun 148 166 19 Chapter 14 01 04 Memory, mothers and post-Freudian melancholia in Merce Rodoreda's 'Night and Fog' Memory, mothers and post-Freudian melancholia in Mercè Rodoreda’s ‘Night and Fog’ 1 A01 01 JB code 1399493 Montserrat Lunati I Maruny Lunati I Maruny, Montserrat Montserrat Lunati I Maruny Cardiff University/University of St Andrews 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.11sal 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.11sal 168 178 11 Chapter 15 01 04 The scenography of death in contemporary poetry The scenography of death in contemporary poetry 01 04 The case of Vicent Andres Estelles The case of Vicent Andrés Estellés 1 A01 01 JB code 568399494 Vicent Salvador Salvador, Vicent Vicent Salvador Universitat Jaume I 2 A01 01 JB code 742399495 Irene Mira Mira, Irene Irene Mira Universitat D'Alacant 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.12mol 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.12mol 180 194 15 Chapter 16 01 04 Beyond the limits of death Beyond the limits of death 01 04 Consciousness without bodies and simulacra of human beings in Science Fiction Consciousness without bodies and simulacra of human beings in Science Fiction 1 A01 01 JB code 813399496 Sara Molpeceres Molpeceres, Sara Sara Molpeceres Universidad de Valladolid 01 01 JB code ivitra.26.index 06 10.1075/ivitra.26.index 195 195 1 Miscellaneous 17 01 04 Index Index 01 JB code JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 https://benjamins.com Amsterdam NL 00 John Benjamins Publishing Company Marketing Department / Karin Plijnaar, Pieter Lamers onix@benjamins.nl 04 01 00 20200409 C 2020 John Benjamins D 2020 John Benjamins 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027205377 WORLD 03 01 JB 17 Google 03 https://play.google.com/store/books 21 01 00 Unqualified price 00 90.00 EUR 01 00 Unqualified price 00 76.00 GBP 01 00 Unqualified price 00 135.00 USD