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Modern death in Irish and Latin American literature / Jacob L. Bender.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bender, Jacob, author.
Contributor:
ProQuest ebook central.
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).
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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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