The power of death : contemporary reflections on death in western society /

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"The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Blanco, Maria-José (Editor ), Vidal, Ricarda (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2015.
Temas:
Death.
Death in literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Death
Funeral Rites
Mort.
Mort dans la littérature.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies.
deaths.
funerals.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
Death in literature
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Death in Society
  • Part II: Death in Literature
  • Part III: Death in Visual Culture
  • Part IV: Cemeteries and Funerals
  • Part V: Personal Reflections on Death.
  • Introduction
  • Life Extension, Immortality and the Patient Voice
  • Beyond 'Mourning and Melancholia'
  • War and Requiem Compositions in the Twentieth Century
  • Understanding Death/Writing Bereavement: the writer's experience
  • A Way of Sorrows for the Twentieth Century: Margherita Guidacci's La Via Crucis dell' umanità
  • From Self-Erasure to Self-Affirmation: communally acknowledged 'good death' in Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying
  • Habeas Corpse: the dead body of evidence in John Grisham's The Client
  • The Fascination with Torture and Death in Twenty-First-Century Crime Fiction
  • The Power of Negative Creation: Why Art by Serial Killers Sells
  • Screening the Dying Individual: Film, Mortality and the Ethics of Spectatorship
  • The Broken Body as Spectacle: looking at death and injury in sport
  • 12 Death on Display: the ideological function of the Mummies of the World Exhibit
  • The Romanian Carnival of Death and the Merry Cemetery of Săpânţa
  • In the Dead of Night: a nocturnal exploration of heterotopia in the graveyard
  • Scenarios of Death in Contexts of Mobility: Guineans and Bangladeshi in Lisbon
  • Karaoke Death: intertextuality in active euthanasia practices
  • Death is Not What it Used to Be: a comparison between customs of death in the UK and Spain: Changes in the last thirty-five years
  • The Dad Project.

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