Description
Living-dead characters appear surprisingly often in the realist works of Balzac and Zola, and in the modern poetry of Baudelaire. In this era of industrialization and modernization, images of the living dead disrupt this state of the new and make visible the impossibility of erasing the past. A skeleton that communicates with a character during a shopping trip, a body taken over by a past ancestor, a ghost that haunts through the floorboards, or a more symbolic dead heart - living death takes many shapes. In readings of these authors, Dorothy Kelly, who has written extensively on the literature of this period, charts the various ways that this image permeates certain works of these three authors and the meanings that it generates.
Author: Dorothy Kelly
Publisher: Legenda
Published: 07/19/2021
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781781886502
ISBN10: 1781886504
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European | French
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 19th Century
- Literary Criticism | Horror & Supernatural
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