Matterightblooming Phenomenon: using George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo to theorise the literariness of Western Death

The fact that death is unknowable is, as Richard A. Cohen points out, quite simply “common sense”. But death – that is, what it is like to really die and what happens to us after we are dead – is a very special kind of unknown, one that is by its very nature unknowable, and one that puts tremendous...

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