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Modern death in Irish and Latin American literature / Jacob L. Bender.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bender, Jacob, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Irish authors.
- Irish literature--History and criticism.
- Irish literature.
- Latin American literature--History and criticism.
- Latin American literature.
- Death in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 240 pages)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerlad : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Mexican Day of the Dead and Celtic Halloween on the Borderlands.- 3. Graveyard Communities: The Speech of the Dead in Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo and Maírtín Ó Cadhain's Cré na Cille.- 4. 'For You Galaxies Will Burn and Stars Will Flame': The Speech of the Dying in Samuel Beckett's Malone Dies and Carlos Fuentes's The Death of Artemio Cruz.- 5. 'Upon All the Living and the Dead': James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, and Their Infinite Ghosts.- 6. Interlude
- 'There'll be Scary Ghost Stories': English Ghosts of Christmas Past.- 7. The Swift and the Dead: Gulliver's Séance in W.B. Yeats's 'The Words Upon the Window-pane', Flann O'Brien's The Dalkey Archive, and Gabriel García Márquez's The General In His Labyrinth.- 8. Under My Vodou: Haiti and Zombie Transformation as Liberation in Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World and Brian Moore's No Other Life.- 9. 'A Terrible Beauty Is Born': William Butler Yeats, Julia de Burgos, and Romantic Resurrection.- 10. Revenants of the Dispossessed: A Momentary Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 26, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9783030509392
- 3030509397
- Publisher Number:
- 99985889865
- 10.1007/978-3-030-50
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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