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The power of death : contemporary reflections on death in western society. edited by Maria-José Blanco and Ricarda Vidal

Blanco, Maria-José Vidal, Ricarda cop. 2015

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  • Title:
    The power of death : contemporary reflections on death in western society. edited by Maria-José Blanco and Ricarda Vidal
  • Author: Blanco, Maria-José;
    Vidal, Ricarda
  • Subjects: Rites et cérémonies funéraires;
    Sociologie de la mort
  • Description: Bibliographie en fin de chapitres. Index
    Life extension, immortality and the patient voice / Catherine Jenkins ; Beyond 'mourning and melancholia' / Lynne M. Simpson ; War and requiem compositions in the twentieth century / Wolfgang Marx ; Understanding death/writing bereavement : the writer's experience / Maria-José Blanco ; A way of sorrows for the twentieth century : Margherita Guidacci's La via crucis dell'umanità / Eleanor David ; From self-erasure to self-affirmation : communally acknowledged 'good death' in Ernest Gaines's A lesson before dying / Corina Crisu ; Habeas corpse : the dead body of evidence in John Grisham's The client / Firoenzo Iuliano ; The fascination with torture and death in twenty-first-century crime fiction / Rebecca Shillabeer ; The power of negative creation : why art by serial killers sells / Ricarda Vidal ; Screening the dying individual : film, mortality and the ethics of spectatorship / John Horne ; The broken body as spectacle : looking at death and injury in sport / Julia Banwell ; Death on display : the ideological function of the Mummies of the world exhibit / Diana York Blaine ; The Romanian carnival of death and the merry cemetery of Săpânţa / Marina Cap-Bun ; In the dead of night : a nocturnal exploration of heterotopia in the graveyard / Bel Deering ; Scenarios of death in contexts of mobility : Guineans and Bangladeshis in Lisbon / Clara Saraiva and José Mapril ; Karaoke death : intertextuality in active euthanasia practices / Natasha Lushetich ; 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 / Lala Isla ; The Dad project / Briony Campbell.
  • Publisher: New York : Berghahn, cop. 2015
  • Creation Date: cop. 2015
  • Format: 1 vol. (XII-260 p.) : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm
  • Language: English
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