COLLECTIVE HUMAN RESURRECTION IN MODERN SECULAR FANTASTIC AND SPECULATIVE FICTION: AN OVERVIEW

It would be a complete «revolution» (etymologically a turn-around) if death were defeated and the deceased returned to the world as they were, in the flesh and with their own individuality, instead of coming back as reanimated monsters. This fantastic possibility is usually described as having revo...

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Autor principal:	Mariano Martín Rodríguez
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Lenguaje:	EN ES FR IT PT
Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2018
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:387343cb437f4e3abefbe9cda08ad2a72021-11-26T12:43:59ZCOLLECTIVE HUMAN RESURRECTION IN MODERN SECULAR FANTASTIC AND SPECULATIVE FICTION: AN OVERVIEW10.5565/rev/brumal.4412014-7910https://doaj.org/article/387343cb437f4e3abefbe9cda08ad2a72018-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/brumal/article/view/441https://doaj.org/toc/2014-7910 It would be a complete «revolution» (etymologically a turn-around) if death were defeated and the deceased returned to the world as they were, in the flesh and with their own individuality, instead of coming back as reanimated monsters. This fantastic possibility is usually described as having revolutionary existencial and societal effects, since the society and the emotional lives of the living is usually transformed through the contact with the returned, whose very presence seems to alter the meaning of life. This paper provides an overview of resurrection stories by international writers, from Giacomo Leopardi to some modern classics, such as Tudor Arghezi, Érico Veríssimo, Marcel Thiry, Angélica Gorodischer and Robert Silverberg, as well as by others less well known, in a variety of fictional works on this matter, especially in the fantastic, but also in the speculative mode. Mariano Martín RodríguezUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaarticleGeneral WorksAENESFRITPTBrumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, Vol 6, Iss 2 (2018)
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description	It would be a complete «revolution» (etymologically a turn-around) if death were defeated and the deceased returned to the world as they were, in the flesh and with their own individuality, instead of coming back as reanimated monsters. This fantastic possibility is usually described as having revolutionary existencial and societal effects, since the society and the emotional lives of the living is usually transformed through the contact with the returned, whose very presence seems to alter the meaning of life. This paper provides an overview of resurrection stories by international writers, from Giacomo Leopardi to some modern classics, such as Tudor Arghezi, Érico Veríssimo, Marcel Thiry, Angélica Gorodischer and Robert Silverberg, as well as by others less well known, in a variety of fictional works on this matter, especially in the fantastic, but also in the speculative mode.
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title	COLLECTIVE HUMAN RESURRECTION IN MODERN SECULAR FANTASTIC AND SPECULATIVE FICTION: AN OVERVIEW
title_short	COLLECTIVE HUMAN RESURRECTION IN MODERN SECULAR FANTASTIC AND SPECULATIVE FICTION: AN OVERVIEW
title_full	COLLECTIVE HUMAN RESURRECTION IN MODERN SECULAR FANTASTIC AND SPECULATIVE FICTION: AN OVERVIEW
title_fullStr	COLLECTIVE HUMAN RESURRECTION IN MODERN SECULAR FANTASTIC AND SPECULATIVE FICTION: AN OVERVIEW
title_full_unstemmed	COLLECTIVE HUMAN RESURRECTION IN MODERN SECULAR FANTASTIC AND SPECULATIVE FICTION: AN OVERVIEW
title_sort	collective human resurrection in modern secular fantastic and speculative fiction: an overview
publisher	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
publishDate	2018
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COLLECTIVE HUMAN RESURRECTION IN MODERN SECULAR FANTASTIC AND SPECULATIVE FICTION: AN OVERVIEW

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