Death in twentieth-century American texts and performances [[electronic resource] ] : corpses, ghosts, and the reanimated dead / / edited by Lisa K. Perdigao and Mark Pizzato |
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 |
Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Death in twentieth-century American texts and performances [[electronic resource] ] : corpses, ghosts, and the reanimated dead / / edited by Lisa K. Perdigao and Mark Pizzato |
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 |
ISBN |
1-317-15445-2
1-315-57596-5 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-9910781058203321 |
Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Death in twentieth-century American texts and performances [[electronic resource] ] : corpses, ghosts, and the reanimated dead / / edited by Lisa K. Perdigao and Mark Pizzato |
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 |
ISBN |
1-317-15445-2
1-315-57596-5 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-9910811242403321 |
Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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DisPossession [[electronic resource] ] : haunting in Canadian fiction / / Marlene Goldman |
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 |
Goldman Marlene <1963-> | ||
Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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DisPossession [[electronic resource] ] : haunting in Canadian fiction / / Marlene Goldman |
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 |
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-9910785509503321 |
Goldman Marlene <1963-> | ||
Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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DisPossession [[electronic resource] ] : haunting in Canadian fiction / / Marlene Goldman |
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 |
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-9910826471803321 |
Goldman Marlene <1963-> | ||
Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ghost-watching American modernity [[electronic resource] ] : haunting, landscape, and the hemispheric imagination / / María del Pilar Blanco |
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 |
Blanco María del Pilar | ||
New York, : Fordham University Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ghost-watching American modernity [[electronic resource] ] : haunting, landscape, and the hemispheric imagination / / María del Pilar Blanco |
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 non controllato |
Latin American Literature
U.S. Literature ghosts haunting landscape modernity space |
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-9910788679703321 |
Blanco María del Pilar | ||
New York, : Fordham University Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ghost-watching American modernity [[electronic resource] ] : haunting, landscape, and the hemispheric imagination / / María del Pilar Blanco |
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 non controllato |
Latin American Literature
U.S. Literature ghosts haunting landscape modernity space |
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-9910825681703321 |
Blanco María del Pilar | ||
New York, : Fordham University Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ghosts [[electronic resource] ] : death's double and the phenomena of theatre / / Alice Rayner |
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 |
Rayner Alice | ||
Minneapolis, Minn. ; ; London, : University of Minnesota Press, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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