Moser, Robert Henry.

The carnivalesque defunto death and the dead in modern Brazilian literature / [electronic resource] : Robert H. Moser. - Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008. - ix, 324 p. ; 22 cm. - Ohio University Research in International Studies. Latin America series ; no. 46 . - Research in international studies. Latin America series ; no. 46. .

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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Brazilian literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Death in literature.
Dead in literature.


Electronic books.

PQ9555 / .M67 2008eb

869.09/35480981