The action of How the Dead Live proceeds through the agency of snarling verbal jousts between the Nameless One and various hated fellow cops, debased stooges, disgusting crims and vilely ugly, whoreish women, alternating with oddly ...

Author: Derek Raymond

Publisher: Serpent's Tail

ISBN: 9781847655806

Category: Fiction

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This, the third novel in the Factory Series, sees Raymond's nameless detective leave London for a remote village called Thornhill, where he's meant to be looking into the disappearance of a local doctor's wife. How The Dead Live is a haunting, fantastical novel, with a hellish country house at its centre; a mystery with little interest in the mystery, a police procedural with almost no procedure. Instead, and as ever with Raymond, it's a brilliantly unsettling investigation into love and damnation. This is life seen from the very bottom of the bottle - a fitting succesor to classic noir writers such as Jim Thompson and David Goodis.

Will Self. HOW THE DEAD LWE HOW THE DEAD LLVE HOW THE DEAD LIVE BY THE. Front Cover.

Author: Will Self

Publisher: A&C Black

ISBN: 9781408850534

Category: Fiction

Page: 404

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It's 1988 and Lily Bloom, a 65-year-old American lies dying of cancer in a London hospital. As her two daughters buzz around her and the nurses pump her full of morphine, she slides in and out of consciousness, outraged that there is so little time left and so many people still to disparage.

A 65-yr-old woman lies dying in a London hospital. As she's in the process of being ferried across to the other world (which turns out to be remarkably like this one), she reflects on her husbands, her children, her entire life.

Author: Will Self

Publisher:

ISBN: 0140268650

Category: Terminally ill

Page: 404

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Scabrous, vicious and unpleasant in life, Lily Bloom has not been noticeably mellowed by death. She has changed addresses, of course, and now inhabits a basement flat in Dulston - London's borough for those no longer troubled by breathing - but if anything her temperament has worsened. Finding it hard to deal with the (enforced) company of a calcified, pop-obsessed foetus, her dead, foul-mouthed son and three gruesome creatures made of her own unwanted fat, she must find something to do with her time. So how do the dead live? And what happens when they stop being dead?

8 How the Dead Live: Mortuary Practices, Memory and the Ancestors in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland Andrew Jones Introduction: Tales from the Dead How do the dead live? This question, and the title for this chapter, ...

Author: Joshua Pollard

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9781405125468

Category: Social Science

Page: 386

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Informed by the latest research and in-depth analysis, Prehistoric Britain provides students and scholars alike with a fascinating overview of the development of human societies in Britain from the Upper Paleolithic to the end of the Iron Age. Offers readers an incisive synthesis and much-needed overview of current research themes Includes essays from leading scholars and professionals who address the very latest trends in current research Explores the interpretive debates surrounding major transitions in British prehistory

Author: Derek Raymond

Publisher:

ISBN: OCLC:1285557194

Category:

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Nor is the question raised , How did the dead live ? That is a great question always , in its place , as all life is valuable according to its righteous employBut that exclamation of Watts , - ment . " Great God ! on what a slender ...

Author: John Greenleaf Adams

Publisher:

ISBN: HARVARD:32044054112065

Category: Consolation

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In How the Dead Live, the sergeant dreams of a city with 'an atmosphere of terror and sadness everywhere' with corpses propped in doorways or lying under sacks of cabbages (Dead Live 47). These nightmares intensify the novels' ...

Author: Lawrence Phillips

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781441159977

Category: Literary Criticism

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London has taken a central role in urban Gothic, from key canonic texts like Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dracula through modern Gothic texts to the 'tourist gothic' of rebranded gastropubs and ghost tours.As a specific category, London Gothic is becoming as important for understanding ourselves today as it has been for thinking about the cultural productions of the late-nineteenth century. This is the first book to focus on Gothic representations of London, offering a range of essays from established and new scholars reading London Gothic as it is manifested in a variety of media and through varied critical approaches.

CHAPTER 19 DANTE AND THE MEDIEVAL CITY How the Dead Live DAVID L . PIKE DANTE ' s Commedia is arguably the most sustained vision of the city in medieval literature ; however , this vision has the determinant peculiarity that all of its ...

Author: Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780191649387

Category: Literary Criticism

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As the 'father' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every 'great books' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, like Shakespeare, exemplifies the almost magical power of poetry to appeal to each generation of readers. Every age remakes its own Chaucer, developing new understandings of how his poetry intersects with contemporary ways of seeing the world, and the place of the subject who lives in it. This Handbook comprises a series of essays by established scholars and emerging voices that address Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean Studies, comparative literature, vernacular theology, and popular devotion. The volume paints the field in broad strokes and sections include Biography and Circumstances of Daily Life; Chaucer in the European Frame; Philosophy and Science in the Universities; Christian Doctrine and Religious Heterodoxy; and the Chaucerian Afterlife. Taken as a whole, The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer offers a snapshot of the current state of the field, and a bold suggestion of the trajectories along which Chaucer studies are likely to develop in the future.

Put differently, when we cease to figure history in terms of laws, drives, development, or logic, are ghosts what remain ... speculative philosophical musings about death—how death affects the living, how the dead live among the living, ...

Author: Wendy Brown

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN: 9780691188058

Category: Philosophy

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In Will Self's oddly engaging novel How the Dead Live,76 main character the dead Lily Bloom, living with other departed persons in a London borough, Dulston – a district given over to 'those no longer breathing' – travels around the ...

Author: David Rankin

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9780429647314

Category: Performing Arts

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This book explores how post-death existence is represented in popular film, looking at issues such as continuity, personal identity, and the nature of existence beyond the grave. Film often returns to the theme of dying, death and the afterlife, both directly and indirectly, because there are very few subjects as compelling and universal. The book compares the representation of death, dying and the afterlife in films to scholarly surveys of attitudes towards life-after-death through the analysis of twenty films made between the end of World War II and now. It looks at the portrayals of stages between death and a final destination; spatio-temporal and personal continuity; the nature of afterlife existence in terms of embodiment, or not; and the contact between the worlds of the living and the dead. This book offers a wide-ranging view on a compelling subject in film. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of Religion and Film, Religion and Media, the Philosophy of Religion, and the Sociology of Religion, as well as Religion, Media and Film Studies more generally .