Dead Bodies in Twentieth-Century American Fiction
by
Lisa K. Perdigao
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
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...