The Loveliness of Decay: Rotting Flesh, Literary Matter, and Dead Media by Jesse Stommel
The Loveliness of Decay: Rotting Flesh, Literary Matter, and Dead Media
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Jesse Stommel

The Loveliness of Decay: Rotting Flesh, Literary Matter, and Dead Media

Jesse Stommel with Shannon Blake Skelton (Contributor), Amber N. Slaven (Contributor), Hans Staats (Contributor), Audrey Taylor (Contributor), Johanna Brinkley (Contributor), Ted Troxell (Contributor), William Wandless (Contributor)

13 pages • first pub 2014 (editions) not a book user-added

nonfiction essays horror

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This article explores the monstrosity of human matter. The human even, even while still alive, is teeming with inhuman cells. Dead bodies call attention to this fact, upsetting the status quo and our sense of ourselves as whole and distinct. Bodie...

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