Death and Dying as a Literary Device: A Reading of Selected Works by Contemporary Malaysian Writers

Arbaayah Ali Termizi;  ; Nurul Soleha Mohd Noor; Wan Iman Wan Salim

doi:10.18178/ijlll.2017.3.1.102

Death and Dying as a Literary Device: A Reading of Selected Works by Contemporary Malaysian Writers

International Journal of Languages Literature and Linguistics ◽

10.18178/ijlll.2017.3.1.102 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 13-17

Author(s):

Arbaayah Ali Termizi ◽

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Nurul Soleha Mohd Noor ◽

Wan Iman Wan Salim

Keyword(s):

Death And Dying ◽

Literary Device

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Death and dying in literature

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment ◽

10.1192/apt.9.3.211 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 211-217 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

John Skelton

Keyword(s):

Health Professionals ◽

English Language ◽

Death And Dying ◽

Symbolic Representation ◽

Death In Literature ◽

Wide Range ◽

Impending Death ◽

Literary Device ◽

Personal Accounts ◽

Cultural Gaps

This paper considers how death and dying are presented in literature. A wide range of texts, principally but not exclusively from the English language tradition, is used to illustrate themes. Broad categories are suggested for the study of death: some authors give personal accounts of their impending death or their sense of bereavement; some use literature to structure and order our thoughts about death; and some treat death as a literary device, using it, for example, as a symbolic representation of the decay of society. It concludes that the biggest obstacles that health professionals and patients face as they attempt to understand death in literature are concerned not with a lack of appropriate emotional depth, but with difficulties either in understanding the conventions of literature or in coming to terms with the cultural gaps imposed by time and place.

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Media Psychology and Complex Modes of Entertainment Experiences

Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications ◽

10.1027/1864-1105/a000030 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 34-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Christoph Klimmt

Keyword(s):

Empirical Studies ◽

Terror Management Theory ◽

Death And Dying ◽

Terror Management ◽

Media Psychology ◽

Mixed Emotions ◽

Theoretical Perspectives ◽

Complex Modes ◽

History Of ◽

Media Enjoyment

This comment briefly examines the history of entertainment research in media psychology and welcomes the conceptual innovations in the contribution by Oliver and Bartsch (this issue). Theoretical perspectives for improving and expanding the “appreciation” concept in entertainment psychology are outlined. These refer to more systematic links of appreciation to the psychology of mixed emotions, to positive psychology, and to the psychology of death and dying – in particular, to terror management theory. In addition, methodological challenges are discussed that entertainment research faces when appreciation and the experience of “meaning for life” need to be addressed in empirical studies of media enjoyment.

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