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Author:

Bender, Jacob, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xii, 240 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Irish literature--History and criticism.
Latin American literature--History and criticism.
Death in literature.
Death in literature.
English literature--Irish authors.
Irish literature.
Latin American literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

3030509389
9783030509385

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1197814418

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)