Tag: Literature

• 7 Imaginative But Most Peculiar Novels About Death

  Writer, blogger and self proclaimed word-nerd Harriet Allner, presents the first in a series of special posts for Death & the Maiden that explore death in literature. This week’s novels take various questions about human life and death, exploring them in interesting, challenging ways. Examining how we construct horrors and hopes around dying, how we use story to…

  Death and the Maiden

  25/07/2016

  Book Club, Guest Post

  Book Reviews, Books, Books on Death, Curiosity, Deadmaidens, Death, Dying, Experiences, Fear, Grief, Human Life, Literature, Loss, Mortality, Novels, The Scribble Bug

• The Final Girl

  

  The last girl standing has been debated by horror fans and academics alike. We can track her evolution through the main stream of horror but her story existed long before the 1970s. For every final girl we find a fallen woman. Looking back at Victorian fiction we find that sex equaled death long before masked…

  Death and the Maiden

  23/03/2015

  Lucy Coleman Talbot

  Cinema, Deadmaidens, Death, Fallen Women, Fiction, Film, Final Girl, Genre, Gothic, Horror, Imagery, Innocence, Literature, Motherhood, Narrative, Revival, Sex, Slasher Film, Symbolism, Violence