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From modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation : dead bodies in Twentieth-century American fiction / Lisa K. Perdigao

Call.No :	PS374 .B64 P4
Record.No :	95445  [Book]
Personal name :	Perdigao, Lisa K.
Title :	From modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation : dead bodies in Twentieth-century American fiction / Lisa K. Perdigao
Sub Title :	dead bodies in Twentieth-century American fiction
Publishing :	Burlington, [ United States ] : Ashgate , 2010
Description :	viii, 178p. : 24 cm
ISBN :	9780754667179
Notes :	''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.''
Biblio Notes :	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects :	American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
	Modernism (Literature) - United States
	Postmodernism (Literature) - United States
	Human body in literature
	Dead in literature

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