In:Discourses on the Edges of Life
Edited by Vicent Salvador †, Adéla Kotátková and Ignasi Clemente
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 26] 2020
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 9 April 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.26.toc
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Contents
Presentation: Discourses on death and dying1
Vicent Salvador
Adéla Koťátková
Ignasi Clemente
Section I.Three disciplinary approaches to the subject of death
Death: From myth to the laboratory11
Josep Lluís Barona
Moral ortothanasia and the right to die: A multinarrative approach23
Fernando Lolas
In the wake of loss: Grief, mourning and bereavement35
Beatriz Gil-Julià
Rafael Ballester-Arnal
Section II.Discourse analysis in health settings
The gift of continuing to live in the body of someone else: The discourse on organ transplants in Spanish press49
Antonio Bañón
Giving meaning to illness and death: End-of-life approaches in online stories by adolescents and young
adults with cancer67
Martí Domínguez
Lucía Sapiña
Religion, collusion, and “fighting”: Pediatric cancer end-of-life discourses in Catalonia, Spain85
Ignasi Clemente
Rhetoric of death in clinical case reports and clinical tales97
Adéla Koťátková
Section III.Death in literary texts
Letters to Lucilius and death: A self-help book written by Seneca113
David Pujante
Montaigne, the essay and the end of life125
John Skelton
Memory, mothers and post-Freudian melancholia in Mercè Rodoreda’s “Night
And Fog”147
Montserrat Lunati i Maruny
The scenography of death in contemporary poetry: The case of Vicent Andrés Estellés167
Vicent Salvador
Irene Mira
Beyond the limits of death: Consciousness without bodies and simulacra of human beings in science
fiction179
Sara Molpeceres
Index195
