Losing our heads : beheadings in literature and culture /

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"What is the fascination that decollation holds for us, as individuals and as a culture? Why does the idea make us laugh and the act make us close our eyes? Losing Our Heads explores in both artistic and cultural contexts the role of the chopped-off head. It asks why the practice of decapitatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Janes, Regina, 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Beheading > History.
Beheading in literature.
Executions and executioners in art.
Décapitation > Histoire.
Décapitation dans la littérature.
Exécutions capitales dans l'art.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Beheading
Beheading in literature
Executions and executioners in art
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : Head matters
  • Introduction to a beheading
  • Bouncing heads and scaffold dramas
  • Power to the people : his pike and her guillotine
  • At the sign of the Baptist's head
  • African heads and imperial décolletage : beheadings in the colonies
  • Epilogue : Craniate origins and headless futures.

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