The carnivalesque defunto death and the dead in modern Brazilian literature / [electronic resource] :
Robert H. Moser.
- Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008.
- ix, 324 p.
- 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Brazilian literature--History and criticism.--20th century Death in literature. Dead in literature.