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People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory—but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability wasn’t due to religion, but philosophy: saying someone is dead is nonsense, as the person no longer is. The one thing that can talk about something that is not, as D. Vance Smith shows in this innovative, provocative book, is literature. Covering the emergence of English literature from the Old English to

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Author

D. Vance Smith

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226640853

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Literary Criticism

Updated

2026-03-25