The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body /

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Bringing together literature, newspaper accounts, wartime correspondence, and popular culture, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier examines how the Unknown Soldier was imagined in diverse national contexts and used by radically opposed political parties. Laura Wittman argues that this monument establish...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wittman, Laura, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Krigsmonument > Italien.
Human body.
Social aspects.
Mourning.
The unknown soldier (Linna)
War monuments.
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Kriegerdenkmal
Unbekannter Soldat
Mourning customs.
Human body > Symbolic aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
Corps humain > Aspect symbolique > Italie.
Deuil > Coutumes > Italie.
Monuments aux morts > Aspect social > Italie.
Monuments commemoratifs militaires > Aspect social > Italie.
Soldats inconnus > Aspect politique > Italie.
Soldats inconnus > Aspect social > Italie.
Human body > Symbolic aspects > Italy.
Mourning customs > Italy.
War memorials > Social aspects > Italy.
Soldiers' monuments > Social aspects > Italy.
Unknown military personnel > Political aspects > Italy.
Unknown military personnel > Social aspects > Italy.
Italy.
Italien
Electronic books.
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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