The essays incorporated into this volume share an ambitious interest in investigating death as an individual, social and metaphorical phenomenon that may be exemplified by themes involving burial rituals, identity, and commemoration.

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Introduction - 1 | Empty Tombs and Apparitions: A Reflection on the Theological Significance of the Exhumation of the emains of John Henry Newman. - 2 | John Donne, Undone, Redone: the John Donne Monument Reconsidered. - 3 | Stalin's Death and Afterlife. - 4 | The Mutilation and Non-Burial of the Dead in Homer's Iliad . - 5 | Identity and the Act of Dying: Sketching a Philosophical Perspective . - 6 | 'emotional rather than cerebral'? Charles Villiers Stanford's Requiem . - 7 | Arrigo Boito and Giovanni Verga: the Body, Illness and Death in Mastro-don Gesualdo . - 8 | Death, Medicine, Literature: Foucault in 1963.