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To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. To browse Academia. This essay works towards a new possible genre of literature that was forced on me as I tried to tell my story of undergoing a destruction of one world and the birth of another. The problem is formidable! The structure of our current world, its language and cultural practices spring from a polarity between spirit and matter, mind and body, fiction and truth, and more—polarities that have hardened into a split.

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An experience of the end of this world involves nothing less that a collapse of these opposites. Possible worlds emerging from the collapse of this split have been long imagined and intuited, across disciplines. But the formidable difficulty remains in expressing any possible new world in linguistic terms that can truly represent that new world, rather than merely reflecting our current one.

There is a risk of unintelligibility. My essay here tries to suggest a literary style that can represent and express such a new possible world and assist in its coming-to-be. The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature, It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale, Catherine Belling, Ronald Schleifer, Helen Swift, and Ira Nadel, as well as the work of a generation of younger scholars from around the globe, who bring valuable transnational insights.

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