The tomb of the unknown soldier, modern mourning, and the reinvention of the mystical body /

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"At the end of the First World War, countries across Europe participated in an unprecedented ritual in which a single, anonymous body was buried to symbolize the overwhelming trauma of the battlefields. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier explores the creation and reception of this symbolic nationa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wittman, Laura, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2011.
Colección:Toronto Italian studies.
Temas:
Unknown military personnel > Social aspects > Italy.
Unknown military personnel > Political aspects > Italy.
Soldiers' monuments > Social aspects > Italy.
War memorials > Social aspects > Italy.
Mourning customs > Italy.
Human body > Symbolic aspects > Italy.
Soldats inconnus > Aspect social > Italie.
Soldats inconnus > Aspect politique > Italie.
Monuments commémoratifs militaires > Aspect social > Italie.
Monuments aux morts > Aspect social > Italie.
Deuil > Coutumes > Italie.
Corps humain > Aspect symbolique > Italie.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Human body > Symbolic aspects.
Mourning customs.
Unbekannter Soldat
Kriegerdenkmal
Kollektives Gedächtnis
War monuments.
The unknown soldier (Linna)
Mourning.
Social aspects.
Human body.
Krigsmonument > Italien.
Italy.
Italien
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART ONE: Anonymity and Sacrifice
  • Introduction: The Return of the Dead ; A Unanimous Idea ; Unanimity and confused bones ; The origins of the Unknown Soldier ; The primal scene
  • Identification and Chorality ; Bones manifest themselves ; Recognition, or reaching across the divide of living and dead ; Sculpted water ; A silent inscription
  • Sacrifice and the non finito ; Taking up anonymity ; Absolution ; Initiation
  • PART TWO: Embodiment and Spectacle
  • Introduction: The Undead Body, The Photographic Image, and the Religious Icon ; Embodiment and Imbestiamento ; Trauma and animality ; The symbolic journey ; The darkness within
  • Mutilation and Spectacle ; Phantom pain, mutilation, and repetition ; Touching the absent body: the "Banner of Randaccio" ; Transmitting the experience of death: Promethean fire
  • Mourning Transcendence and Reenchanting the Flesh ; Confronting Mortality ; Mourning Transcendence ; Modernity and the Mystical Body.

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