Current and Recent Research Students
Miss Alice Bennett
Contact (email at alice.bennett@durham.ac.uk)
My research explores how the afterlife is represented in narrative in the twentieth century, and how the properties of narrative itself are part of the way we imagine the afterlife. I am interested in how narratives are structured in ways which seem to demand an afterlife perspective, and how ideas about time which have developed in the twentieth century are linked to modern fictions concerned with heaven and hell. The bulk of my work concentrates on British and Irish writing, as I examine an opposition between postmodern American fictions of apocalypse and European fictions about personal endings, but I have an enthusiastic personal interest in contemporary American literature. My supervisor is Professor Waugh.
