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Obituaries: A Dead Important Genre
2020
European journal of life writing
Obituaries are micro-narratives in which distinct conventions and tensions are at work. Humanist and historical, emotional and dispassionate, philosophical and random, obituaries have a literary nexus that encompasses reverence, irreverence, grief and (in some cases) relief. My analysis starts with broadsheet obituaries of the late twentieth century, and models of reading the genre, which I re-read through counter-establishment Private Eye's comic verse obituaries. Pet memorials adopt and adapt
doi:10.21827/ejlw.9.36909
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