From modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation dead bodies in twentieth-century American fiction /
| Основен автор: | Perdigao, Lisa K. |
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| Автор-организации: | ebrary, Inc. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. :
Ashgate,
2010.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
| Описание на библ. документ: |
"Introduction: encrypting the body -- "It was better to get her underground": the modernist burial plot -- "I advise you not to dig into it": metaphor, metonymy, and the modern novel -- "To pierce and shred those unblemished bodies": corpses, theory, and the postmodern novel -- "Someone was hanging there": the postmodern Book of the dead -- "Bone by bone": Alice Walker's exhumation of Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- Conclusion: in theory." |
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| Физически характеристики: |
viii, 178 p. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |