wyszukanych pozycji: 3
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From Modernist Entombment to Postmodernist Exhumation: Dead Bodies in Twentieth-Century American Fiction
ISBN: 9780754667179 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How fictional representations of dead bodies develop over the twentieth century is the central concern of Lisa K. Perdigao's study of American writers. Arguing that the crisis of bodily representation can be traced in the move from modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation, Perdigao considers how works by writers from F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, and Richard Wright to Jody Shields, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Jeffrey Eugenides reflect changing attitudes about dying, death, and mourning. For example, while modernist writers direct their plots toward a...
How fictional representations of dead bodies develop over the twentieth century is the central concern of Lisa K. Perdigao's study of American writers...
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731,87 zł |
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Death in American Texts and Performances: Corpses, Ghosts, and the Reanimated Dead
ISBN: 9780754669074 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How do twentieth and twenty-first century artists bring forth the powerful reality of death when it exists in memory and lived experience as something that happens only to others? Death in American Texts and Performances takes up this question to explore the modern and postmodern aesthetics of death. Working between and across genres, the contributors examine literary texts and performance media, including Robert Lowell's For the Union Dead, Luis Valdez' Dark Root of a Scream, Amiri Baraka's Dutchman, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, John Edgar Wideman's The Cattle Killing, Toni Morrison's Sula...
How do twentieth and twenty-first century artists bring forth the powerful reality of death when it exists in memory and lived experience as something...
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cena:
731,87 zł |
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Death in American Texts and Performances: Corpses, Ghosts, and the Reanimated Dead
ISBN: 9781138262225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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252,32 zł |