Modern death in Irish and Latin American literature /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bender, Jacob, author.
Imprint:	Cham, Switzerlad : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Description:	1 online resource ( xii, 240 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	English literature -- Irish authors -- 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.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12454742

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ISBN:	9783030509392 3030509397 9783030509385 3030509389
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 26, 2020).
Other form:	Print version: 9783030509385
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-3-030-50

Table of 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.

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