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LEADER: 01460nam a22002898a 4500
001 2009045496
003 DLC
005 20091028091705.0
008 091028s2010 enk b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780754667179 (hardback : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPS374.B64$bP47 2010
082 00 $a813/.0093561$222
100 1 $aPerdigao, Lisa K.
245 10 $aFrom modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation :$bdead bodies in twentieth-century American fiction /$cby Lisa K. Perdigao.
260 $aFarnham, Surrey, England ;$aBurlington, VT :$bAshgate,$c2010.
263 $a1005
300 $ap. cm.
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 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aHuman body in literature.
650 0 $aDead in literature.
650 0 $aModernism (Literature)$zUnited States.
650 0 $aPostmodernism (Literature)$zUnited States.