From modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation [electronic resource] : dead bodies in twentieth-century American fiction / Lisa K. Perdigao.
2010
PS374.B64 P47 2010eb
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Title
From modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation [electronic resource] : dead bodies in twentieth-century American fiction / Lisa K. Perdigao.
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ISBN
9781409404309 (electronic bk.)
9780754667179 (alk. paper)
9780754667179 (alk. paper)
Published
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 178 pages)
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PS374.B64 P47 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.0093561
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"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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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