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The Graveyard in Literature: Liminality and Social Critique
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eigeartaigh, Aoileann Ni
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cemeteries in literature.
- Liminality in literature.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Summary:
- This volume focuses on literary and other cultural texts that use the graveyard as a liminal space within which received narratives and social values can be challenged, and new and empowering perspectives on the present articulated. It argues that such texts do so primarily by immersing the reader in a liminal space, between life and death, where traditional certainties such as time and space are suspended and new models of human interaction can thus be formulated. Essays in this volume examine the use of liminality as a vehicle for social critique, paying particular attention to the ways in which liminal spaces facilitate the construction of alternative perspectives.
- ISBN:
- 1-5275-7738-4
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