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Intro
Preface
References
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
About the Editor
Contributors
Part I: Suicide in Contemporary Writers Caused by Socio-Structural and Environmental Violence and Pressures
Chapter 1: Beyond the Wertherian Motif of Suicide: The Unity of the Self in Karoline von Günderrode's Death
1 Historical and Sociopolitical Context
2 Inspirations, Work, and Indications of Her Suicide
References
Chapter 2: "I Manage It": Analyzing Tropes of Suicide in Sylvia Plath's Writing
References
Chapter 3: Virginia Woolf's Suicidal Character(s): Schizophrenia and the Rebellion Against the Body and the Self in Her Literary Works
1 Introduction
2 Mrs. Dalloway: Constructing and Conceptualizing Madness
3 Biopower, Necropower, and the Question of Agency in Suicide: Rhoda's Case (The Waves)
4 Beyond the Reality-Fiction Dichotomy: Virginia Woolf's Suicide Case and History
5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 4: "Death Beats in My Heart Everyday": A Sociological Reading of Suicidal Intent in Sara Shagufta's Works
1 Background of Sara Shagufta
2 Gender and Suicide
3 Invisibility of Suicide Narratives in South Asian Context
4 Islam's Perception of Women and Suicide
5 Social, Political, and Cultural Setting of the Pakistan of Shagufta's Times
6 Erasure of Sara Shagufta from the Canon of Urdu Women's Poetry
7 Contextualizing Sara Shagufta
8 Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Inside the Medical Suicidal Mind: Felipe Trigo's Death by Suicide and Its Self-Novelization as a Way of Understanding Suicide in Contemporary Practitioners
1 Introduction: Understanding Suicide in the Medical Profession
2 Felipe Trigo's El médico rural (1912): Another Doorway into the Medical Suicidal Mind
2.1 Life and Work of Felipe Trigo
2.2 Insights of Suicidal Behavior in Trigo's Writings
2.3 Trigo's Suicidal Mind and Other Deaths by Suicide in Spanish Fiction Medical Authors
3 Conclusions
References
Chapter 6: The Problem of Suicide in Kafka: An Ethical or Aesthetical Problem?
1 Introduction
2 Suicide in Kafka's Age: Only an Ethical Problem?
2.1 Durkheim's Theoretical Frame to Classify the Types of Suicide
2.2 Which Kind of Suicide Did Kafka Think About?
3 Kafka's Aesthetical Reasons for Thinking About Committing Suicide
4 Contradiction Between the Ethical and Aesthetical Points of View
5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 7: The Tragedy of Vladimir Mayakovsky: Suicide as a Dialectical Dilemma
1 Introduction
2 Unrequited Love as a Master-Slave Dialectic
3 Revelation Through Revolution: A Work Toward Freedom?
4 In Conclusion: Not with a Whimper But a Bang
References
Chapter 8: Paul Celan: The Abyss of the Word "Forgiveness"
1 Introduction
2 A Room Near the Seine
3 A Silent Dialogue in Todtnauberg
Preface
References
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
About the Editor
Contributors
Part I: Suicide in Contemporary Writers Caused by Socio-Structural and Environmental Violence and Pressures
Chapter 1: Beyond the Wertherian Motif of Suicide: The Unity of the Self in Karoline von Günderrode's Death
1 Historical and Sociopolitical Context
2 Inspirations, Work, and Indications of Her Suicide
References
Chapter 2: "I Manage It": Analyzing Tropes of Suicide in Sylvia Plath's Writing
References
Chapter 3: Virginia Woolf's Suicidal Character(s): Schizophrenia and the Rebellion Against the Body and the Self in Her Literary Works
1 Introduction
2 Mrs. Dalloway: Constructing and Conceptualizing Madness
3 Biopower, Necropower, and the Question of Agency in Suicide: Rhoda's Case (The Waves)
4 Beyond the Reality-Fiction Dichotomy: Virginia Woolf's Suicide Case and History
5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 4: "Death Beats in My Heart Everyday": A Sociological Reading of Suicidal Intent in Sara Shagufta's Works
1 Background of Sara Shagufta
2 Gender and Suicide
3 Invisibility of Suicide Narratives in South Asian Context
4 Islam's Perception of Women and Suicide
5 Social, Political, and Cultural Setting of the Pakistan of Shagufta's Times
6 Erasure of Sara Shagufta from the Canon of Urdu Women's Poetry
7 Contextualizing Sara Shagufta
8 Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Inside the Medical Suicidal Mind: Felipe Trigo's Death by Suicide and Its Self-Novelization as a Way of Understanding Suicide in Contemporary Practitioners
1 Introduction: Understanding Suicide in the Medical Profession
2 Felipe Trigo's El médico rural (1912): Another Doorway into the Medical Suicidal Mind
2.1 Life and Work of Felipe Trigo
2.2 Insights of Suicidal Behavior in Trigo's Writings
2.3 Trigo's Suicidal Mind and Other Deaths by Suicide in Spanish Fiction Medical Authors
3 Conclusions
References
Chapter 6: The Problem of Suicide in Kafka: An Ethical or Aesthetical Problem?
1 Introduction
2 Suicide in Kafka's Age: Only an Ethical Problem?
2.1 Durkheim's Theoretical Frame to Classify the Types of Suicide
2.2 Which Kind of Suicide Did Kafka Think About?
3 Kafka's Aesthetical Reasons for Thinking About Committing Suicide
4 Contradiction Between the Ethical and Aesthetical Points of View
5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 7: The Tragedy of Vladimir Mayakovsky: Suicide as a Dialectical Dilemma
1 Introduction
2 Unrequited Love as a Master-Slave Dialectic
3 Revelation Through Revolution: A Work Toward Freedom?
4 In Conclusion: Not with a Whimper But a Bang
References
Chapter 8: Paul Celan: The Abyss of the Word "Forgiveness"
1 Introduction
2 A Room Near the Seine
3 A Silent Dialogue in Todtnauberg