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The carnivalesque defunto [electronic resource] : death and the dead in modern Brazilian literature / Robert H. Moser.

By: Moser, Robert Henry.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Research in international studiesLatin America series: no. 46.Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008Description: ix, 324 p. ; 22 cm.Subject(s): Brazilian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Death in literature | Dead in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 869.09/35480981 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Death Is a festa : the historical development of a spirit idiom in Brazilian society -- Death and the dead as literary motifs in Brazil and beyond -- The carnivalesque defunto in Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas. -- Jorge Amado : imagining a good death -- Voices of the unburied dead.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-314) and index.

Death Is a festa : the historical development of a spirit idiom in Brazilian society -- Death and the dead as literary motifs in Brazil and beyond -- The carnivalesque defunto in Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas. -- Jorge Amado : imagining a good death -- Voices of the unburied dead.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.