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Discourses on the edges of life /

"Death inhabits our collective imaginary, even though sometimes, like a squatter, it hides discretely in order to avoid conflicts. It is undoubtedly a multi-faceted subject of study, which requires consideration from an interdisciplinary perspective. This book deals with this phenomenon, and mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Salvador, Vicent (Editor ), Kotátková, Adéla (Editor ), Clemente, Ignasi (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
Colección:IVITRA research in linguistics and literature ; v. 26.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Presentation : discourses on death and dying / Vicent Salvador, Adéla Koťátková and Ignasi Clemente
  • Death : from myth to the laboratory / Josep L. Barona
  • Moral ortothanasia and the right to die : a multinarrative approach / Fernando Lolas Stepke
  • In the wake of loss : grief, mourning and bereavement / Beatriz Gil-Juliá and Rafael Ballester-Arnal
  • The gift of continuing to live in the body of someone else : the discourse on organ transplants in Spanish press / Antonio M. Bañón Hernández
  • Giving meaning to illness and death : end-of-life approaches in online stories by adolescents and young adults with cancer / Martí Domínguez and Lucía Sapiña
  • Religion, collusion, and "fighting" : pediatric cancer end-of-life discourses in Catalonia, Spain / Ignasi Clemente
  • Rhetoric of death in clinical case reports and clinical tales / Adéla Koťátková
  • 'Letters to Lucilius' and death : a self-help book written by Seneca / David Pujante
  • Montaigne, the essay and the end of life / John Skelton
  • Memory, mothers and post-Freudian melancholia in Mercè Rodoreda's 'Night and fog' / Montserrat Lunati i Maruny
  • The scenography of death in contemporary poetry : the case of Vicent Andrés Estellés / Vicent Salvador and Irene Mira
  • Beyond the limits of death : consciousness without bodies and simulacra of human beings in science fiction / Sara Molpeceres.