Though this
necrophilic aesthetic permeates the entire novel, the explicit act itself occurs in the "episodio tragico" of Umbelino and Pantea, which the prince relates to Claudio after their visit to Violante's beloved fountain in the palace's garden.
In other words, the reification of Cortijo's dead effigy epitomizes a
necrophilic perversion, which by way of its perversity should make the reader question the reliability and authority of the author-cumnarrator.
Spicer's essentially
necrophilic relationship with Lorca has little to do with "fidelity": as "Lorca" writes in his introduction to After Lorca," The dead are notoriously hard to satisfy" (Collected Books 12).
Our notion of "civilization" is part of a dream state that keeps us unconscious of and complacent within our
necrophilic desires.
The sexed-up,
necrophilic dalliances of white (musical) masters and the (always) black, (most often) men that they admire and desire, consume and cannibalize continue to hold center stage in the critical imaginaries of performance studies and rock music histories alike.
Deep human despair perverts our sincerest hope for justice and righteousness, transforming it into a
necrophilic justification for global annihilation.
Among their perspectives are
necrophilic tendencies in Petrarch, Albrecht Durer's view of Orpheus after Eurydice, and Ben Jonson's epitaph for his first son.
There's nothing
necrophilic about Elvis' sudden urge to kiss Anabelle--he's simply smitten, and acts on impulse--and, despite mood enhancement by conveniently bad weather, maybe nothing really supernatural about her instant revival.
building up in Anglican writing in Ireland: the horrific imagery of Sir John Temple, the narrative convolution of Molyneux and King, the vampirie, cannibalistic and zombified characters of Jonathan Swift, the transcendent sublime of Edmund Burke, the ritualized functions of commemorative ceremonies, the
necrophilic neurosis of Graveyard Poetry, the ghosting of the past in Antiquarian research, and the childhood orientation of antiquarianism.
(63) The late Grace Jantzen's magisterial Foundations of Violence also draws attention to what she calls the
necrophilic habitus of modernity that, unchecked, will continue to bring about violence, death, and destruction.