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Birth and Death in British Culture : Liminality, Power, and Performance.
Why discuss birth and death when they lie outside discourse, confronting us Other experiences that cannot be put into words? And why look at them together when they are so much unlike each other, one the moment of fresh beginnings, joys, and the relative certainties of existence, the other the momen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Why discuss birth and death when they lie outside discourse, confronting us Other experiences that cannot be put into words? And why look at them together when they are so much unlike each other, one the moment of fresh beginnings, joys, and the relative certainties of existence, the other the moment of life's end, grief, and the relative uncertainties of non-existence? Because it turns out that both events, while virtually unrepresentable, have spawned a host of representations, narratives, r ... |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (243 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781443839334 1443839337 |