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  1. Death in American texts and performances
    corpses, ghosts, and the reanimated dead
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Farnham, England [u.a.] ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    How do twentieth-century artists bring forth the powerful reality of death when it exists in memory and lived experience as something that happens only to others? This volume grapples with this paradox, examining literary texts and performance media... more

    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    How do twentieth-century artists bring forth the powerful reality of death when it exists in memory and lived experience as something that happens only to others? This volume grapples with this paradox, examining literary texts and performance media that include Amiri Baraka's Dutchman, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, John Edgar Wideman's The Cattle Killing, Anne Sexton's poetry, Toni Morrison's Sula and Song of Solomon, Don DeLillo's White Noise, and HBO's Six Feet Under.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Perdigao, Lisa K.; Pizzato, Mark
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780754696025; 0754696022; 9780754669074; 0754669076; 1282454250; 9781282454255
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 216 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. Death in American Texts and Performances
    Corpses, Ghosts, and the Reanimated Dead
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Farnham

    How do twentieth-century artists bring forth the powerful reality of death when it exists in memory and lived experience as something that happens only to others? This volume grapples with this paradox, examining literary texts and performance media... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt / Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
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    Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, Zentralbibliothek
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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    How do twentieth-century artists bring forth the powerful reality of death when it exists in memory and lived experience as something that happens only to others? This volume grapples with this paradox, examining literary texts and performance media that include Amiri Baraka's Dutchman, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, John Edgar Wideman's The Cattle Killing, Anne Sexton's poetry, Toni Morrison's Sula and Song of Solomon, Don DeLillo's White Noise, and HBO's Six Feet Under

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1282454250; 9780754669074; 9781282454255
    Scope: Online-Ressource (229 p.)
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    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;

  3. Death in American texts and performances
    corpses, ghosts, and the reanimated dead
    Published: c2010
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Farnham, England

    How do twentieth-century artists bring forth the powerful reality of death when it exists in memory and lived experience as something that happens only to others? This volume grapples with this paradox, examining literary texts and performance media... more

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    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
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    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    How do twentieth-century artists bring forth the powerful reality of death when it exists in memory and lived experience as something that happens only to others? This volume grapples with this paradox, examining literary texts and performance media that include Amiri Baraka's Dutchman, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, John Edgar Wideman's The Cattle Killing, Anne Sexton's poetry, Toni Morrison's Sula and Song of Solomon, Don DeLillo's White Noise, and HBO's Six Feet Under

     

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