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Title The power of death : contemporary reflections on death in western society / edited by Maria-José Blanco and Ricarda Vidal.
Publication Info New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2015.


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Descript 1 online resource (xii, 260 pages)
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Contents Part I: Death in Society -- Part II: Death in Literature -- Part III: Death in Visual Culture -- Part IV: Cemeteries and Funerals -- Part V: Personal Reflections on Death.
Introduction -- Life Extension, Immortality and the Patient Voice -- Beyond 'Mourning and Melancholia' -- War and Requiem Compositions in the Twentieth Century -- Understanding Death/Writing Bereavement: the writer's experience -- A Way of Sorrows for the Twentieth Century: Margherita Guidacci's La Via Crucis dell' umanità -- From Self-Erasure to Self-Affirmation: communally acknowledged 'good death' in Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying -- Habeas Corpse: the dead body of evidence in John Grisham's The Client -- The Fascination with Torture and Death in Twenty-First-Century Crime Fiction -- The Power of Negative Creation: Why Art by Serial Killers Sells -- Screening the Dying Individual: Film, Mortality and the Ethics of Spectatorship --The Broken Body as Spectacle: looking at death and injury in sport --12 Death on Display: the ideological function of the Mummies of the World Exhibit -- The Romanian Carnival of Death and the Merry Cemetery of Săpânţa -- In the Dead of Night: a nocturnal exploration of heterotopia in the graveyard -- Scenarios of Death in Contexts of Mobility: Guineans and Bangladeshi in Lisbon -- Karaoke Death: intertextuality in active euthanasia practices -- Death is Not What it Used to Be: a comparison between customs of death in the UK and Spain: Changes in the last thirty-five years --The Dad Project.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781782384342 (electronic bk.)
1782384340 (electronic bk.)
9781782384335 (hardback)
1782384332 (hardback)
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Subject Death.
Death in literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Alt author Blanco, Maria-José.
Vidal, Ricarda.
Descript 1 online resource (xii, 260 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Part I: Death in Society -- Part II: Death in Literature -- Part III: Death in Visual Culture -- Part IV: Cemeteries and Funerals -- Part V: Personal Reflections on Death.
Introduction -- Life Extension, Immortality and the Patient Voice -- Beyond 'Mourning and Melancholia' -- War and Requiem Compositions in the Twentieth Century -- Understanding Death/Writing Bereavement: the writer's experience -- A Way of Sorrows for the Twentieth Century: Margherita Guidacci's La Via Crucis dell' umanità -- From Self-Erasure to Self-Affirmation: communally acknowledged 'good death' in Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying -- Habeas Corpse: the dead body of evidence in John Grisham's The Client -- The Fascination with Torture and Death in Twenty-First-Century Crime Fiction -- The Power of Negative Creation: Why Art by Serial Killers Sells -- Screening the Dying Individual: Film, Mortality and the Ethics of Spectatorship --The Broken Body as Spectacle: looking at death and injury in sport --12 Death on Display: the ideological function of the Mummies of the World Exhibit -- The Romanian Carnival of Death and the Merry Cemetery of Săpânţa -- In the Dead of Night: a nocturnal exploration of heterotopia in the graveyard -- Scenarios of Death in Contexts of Mobility: Guineans and Bangladeshi in Lisbon -- Karaoke Death: intertextuality in active euthanasia practices -- Death is Not What it Used to Be: a comparison between customs of death in the UK and Spain: Changes in the last thirty-five years --The Dad Project.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781782384342 (electronic bk.)
1782384340 (electronic bk.)
9781782384335 (hardback)
1782384332 (hardback)
Subject Death.
Death in literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Alt author Blanco, Maria-José.
Vidal, Ricarda.

Subject Death.
Death in literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Descript 1 online resource (xii, 260 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Part I: Death in Society -- Part II: Death in Literature -- Part III: Death in Visual Culture -- Part IV: Cemeteries and Funerals -- Part V: Personal Reflections on Death.
Introduction -- Life Extension, Immortality and the Patient Voice -- Beyond 'Mourning and Melancholia' -- War and Requiem Compositions in the Twentieth Century -- Understanding Death/Writing Bereavement: the writer's experience -- A Way of Sorrows for the Twentieth Century: Margherita Guidacci's La Via Crucis dell' umanità -- From Self-Erasure to Self-Affirmation: communally acknowledged 'good death' in Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying -- Habeas Corpse: the dead body of evidence in John Grisham's The Client -- The Fascination with Torture and Death in Twenty-First-Century Crime Fiction -- The Power of Negative Creation: Why Art by Serial Killers Sells -- Screening the Dying Individual: Film, Mortality and the Ethics of Spectatorship --The Broken Body as Spectacle: looking at death and injury in sport --12 Death on Display: the ideological function of the Mummies of the World Exhibit -- The Romanian Carnival of Death and the Merry Cemetery of Săpânţa -- In the Dead of Night: a nocturnal exploration of heterotopia in the graveyard -- Scenarios of Death in Contexts of Mobility: Guineans and Bangladeshi in Lisbon -- Karaoke Death: intertextuality in active euthanasia practices -- Death is Not What it Used to Be: a comparison between customs of death in the UK and Spain: Changes in the last thirty-five years --The Dad Project.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
Alt author Blanco, Maria-José.
Vidal, Ricarda.
ISBN 9781782384342 (electronic bk.)
1782384340 (electronic bk.)
9781782384335 (hardback)
1782384332 (hardback)
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