Pubbl/distr/stampa	Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (229 p.)
Disciplina	810.9 810.9/3548 810.935480904
Altri autori (Persone)	PerdigaoLisa K PizzatoMark <1960->
Soggetto topico	American literature - 20th century - History and criticism Death in literature Ghosts in literature Death in mass media
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-317-15444-4 1-282-45425-0 9786612454257 0-7546-9602-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Studying the Corpse; 1 A Representation of Death in an Anti-Vietnam War Play by Luis Valdez: Dark Root of a Scream; 2 Skins of Desire in Evolution: The Black and White Murder Film, Dutchman; 3 DeLillo, Performance, and the Denial of Death; 4 Dust to Dust and the Spaces in Between; PART II Tracing Ghosts; 5 Thornton Wilder's "Eternal Present": Ghosting and the Grave Body in Act III of Our Town; 6 When Ghosts Dream: Immigrant Desire in Lan Samantha Chang's Hunger; 7 A Return to Memory, Possibility, and Life 8 Ghosts of Proof in the Mind's EyePART III Reanimating the Dead; 9 "For the Union Dead": Robert Lowell's American Necropolis; 10 Locating the Front Line; 11 Televised Death in Don DeLillo's America; 12 "Everything now is measured by after": A Postmortem for the Twenty-First Century; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457107903321

Autore	Goldman Marlene <1963->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (383 p.)
Disciplina	813.540937
Soggetto topico	Ghosts in literature Spirit possession in literature Supernatural in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-7735-3950-6 1-283-58396-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Part one The Haunted Nation: Explorer and Settler-Invader Amnesia and the Spectral Native -- 1 Coyote's Children and the Canadian Gothic: Sheila Watson's The Double Hook and Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The Cure for Death by Lightning -- 2 Dispossession and the Rule of Primogeniture in John Steffler's The Afterlife of George Cartwright -- Part two Transnational Haunting: The Ghosts of the Diaspora -- 3 Jane Urquhart's Away : Magic Realism and the Ghosts of Celticism -- 4 'Cloth Flowers That Bleed': Haunting, Hysteria, and Diaspora in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace -- 5 'The spirits call she and make their display in she': The Trope of Possession in the Work of Dionne Brand -- Part three and Repair Ghosts and the Cycle of Reparation -- 6 Ghost Play: The Use of Transitional Phenomena in Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water -- Conclusion: Toward an Ethics of Haunting.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910462159803321

Autore	Blanco María del Pilar
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Fordham University Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (237 p.)
Disciplina	809/.897
Soggetto topico	American literature - 19th century - History and criticism American literature - 20th century - History and criticism Comparative literature - American and Latin American Comparative literature - Latin American and American Ghosts in literature Haunted places Landscapes in literature Nationalism in literature Spanish American literature - 19th century - History and criticism Spanish American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-57749-6 0-8232-4216-1 9786613889942 0-8232-4217-X 0-8232-4661-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Unsolving Hemispheric Mystery -- 2. Desert Mournings -- 3. Urban Indiscretions -- 4. Transnational Shadows -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910463564303321

Autore	Blanco Maria del Pilar
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Fordham University Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (237 p.)
Disciplina	809/.897 809.897
Soggetto topico	American literature - 19th century - History and criticism American literature - 20th century - History and criticism Comparative literature - American and Latin American Comparative literature - Latin American and American Ghosts in literature Haunted places Landscapes in literature Nationalism in literature Spanish American literature - 19th century - History and criticism Spanish American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
ISBN	9786613889942 9781283577496 1283577496 9780823242160 0823242161 9780823242177 082324217X 9780823246618 0823246612
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Unsolving Hemispheric Mystery -- 2. Desert Mournings -- 3. Urban Indiscretions -- 4. Transnational Shadows -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910970118703321

Autore	Rayner Alice
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Minneapolis, Minn. ; ; London, : University of Minnesota Press, 2006
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (244 p.)
Disciplina	792.019
Soggetto topico	Theater - Psychological aspects Drama - History and criticism Ghosts in literature Ghosts in motion pictures
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8166-9712-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Doubles and doubts -- Tonight at 8:00: the missed encounter -- All the dead voices: memorial and history -- Objects: lost and found -- Empty chairs: the memorial double -- Double or nothing: ghosts behind the curtains -- Ghosts onscreen: the drama of misrecognition.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910451377403321