Perdigao, Lisa K.
From modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation dead bodies in twentieth-century American fiction / [electronic resource] : Lisa K. Perdigao. - Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2010. - viii, 178 p.
"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."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2010.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Human body in literature.
Dead in literature.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
Electronic books.
PS374.B64 / P47 2010eb
813/.0093561
From modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation dead bodies in twentieth-century American fiction / [electronic resource] : Lisa K. Perdigao. - Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2010. - viii, 178 p.
"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."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2010.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Human body in literature.
Dead in literature.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
Electronic books.
PS374.B64 / P47 2010eb
813/.0093561