Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art, and Film: Song of Death in Paradise

Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film: Song of Death in Paradise explores the combination of two motifs, death and gardens, to show how the two subjects are intertwined and used in various media and cultural contexts. Using cultural, literary, film, and art history theories, the contributors analyze various death and garden sceneries in literary works by Arthur Machen, Agatha Christie, J.K. Rowling, as well as in superhero comics, films, and cultural and art contexts such as Ian Hamilton Finley’s “Little Sparta,” the poetic verses from the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden in South Africa, and the Australian wilderness.Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art, and Film: Song of Death in Paradise is written by Author and published by Lexington Books. ISBNs for Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art, and Film are 9781793625892, 1793625891 and the print ISBNs are 9781793625885, 1793625883.