A Death of One's Own : Literature, Law, and the Right to Die /

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"To be or not to be--who asks this question today, and how? What does it mean to issue, or respond to, an appeal for the right to die? In A Death of One's Own, the first sustained literary study of the right to die, Jared Stark takes up these timely questions by testing predominant legal u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stark, Jared Louis (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Suicide in literature.
Right to die > Moral and ethical aspects.
Right to die > Law and legislation.
Law and literature.
Euthanasia in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Suicide dans la litterature.
Droit à la mort > Aspect moral.
Droit et litterature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Preferring not to: living wills, assisted suicide, Bartleby
  • The modernist art of death: Balzac, Baudelaire, Benjamin
  • Death with dignity after Auschwitz
  • Epilogue. Dead letters.

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