From modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation dead bodies in twentieth-century American fiction /

Main Author: Perdigao, Lisa K.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2010.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10392141
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300 |a viii, 178 p. 
500 |a "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." 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
650 0 |a American fiction  |x History and criticism.  |y 20th century 
650 0 |a Human body in literature. 
650 0 |a Dead in literature. 
650 0 |a Modernism (Literature)  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Postmodernism (Literature)  |z United States. 
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