The Horror of the Good Death: Narratives of Death in Horror Fiction, 1970-present

20世纪70年代的死亡意识运动和当代死亡积极运动将自己描绘成否认死亡的西方文化中死亡意识的捍卫者，倡导真实的自我表达、死亡接受、个人成长、自主和个性化死亡等价值观。通过对20世纪70年代后恐怖文本的仔细分析，我的项目将考虑这一时期的超自然和现实主义恐怖写作在多大程度上涉及与死亡相关的文化焦虑，并提供一种对死亡的另一种视角，这种视角与浪漫化的叙事相反，并提供了对死亡的另一种洞察，而不是对许多死亡学研究的中心的中产阶级的“好死”的洞察。

Portraying themselves as champions of death awareness within a death-denying Western culture, the 1970s Death Awareness Movement and the contemporary Death Positivity Movement promote such values as authentic self-expression, death acceptance, personal growth, autonomy andpersonalised death. Through close analysis of post-1970s horror texts, my project will consider the extent to which supernatural and realist horror writing of this period engages with death-related cultural anxieties and offers an alternative perspective on death, one which counters romanticisednarratives and provides insight into a different kind of death from the middle-class 'good death' central to much thanatological research.