From modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation [electronic resource] : dead bodies in twentieth-century American fiction / Lisa K. Perdigao.
By: Perdigao, Lisa K.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2010Description: viii, 178 p.Subject(s): American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Human body in literature | Dead in literature | Modernism (Literature) -- United States | Postmodernism (Literature) -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 813/.0093561 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
"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.
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