‘Not-All-There’ in the Necropolis: Afterlife and Madness in Urban Novels

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This is a masterfully written piece, a literary investigation and comparative treatment of "madness" and the "Afterlife" as metaphorical "spaces" in human experience.

The author only needs to remove some minor redundancy and inconsistency in the bibliography at the end of the paper.

Author Response

I am grateful for the reviewer's comments and favourable reception of the article, and have addressed the inconsistencies in the bibiliography.

Reviewer 2 Report

The paper seems to be an exegesis of the After Life topic found in the urban novel through the lenses of Christian doctrine about the „afterlife”.

1. The Christian afterlife teaching needs to be presented more. It looks like a caricature! I suggest reading some studies on Christian eschatology to decide which type of eschatology is applied to interpret the eschatology from urban novels.

2. The methodology could be more explicit. What type of interpretation is used in the paper? A theological one, a sociological one, or a philosophical one?

3. The conclusion section needs to be added to the argumentation.

Author Response

Many thanks to the reviewer for their thorough reading and helpful comments. In my revisions, I have added theoretical background from general Christian eschatology, as well as positioned my article in relation to eschatological doctrine. That is to say, I have distanced it from a purely eschatological reading and aligned it more closely with a literary philosophical interpretation of the Afterlife in a secular socio-historical context.
Finally, I have extended the section conclusions and added an overall article conclusion.