Sociology: death and dying Books
Imperium Ink Grief and Loss in the Age of AI
£13.23
Wits University Press How I Lost My Mother: A Story of Life, Care and Dying
£71.00
White Crow Productions The Mind at Large: Clairvoyance, Psychics, Police and Life after Death: A Polish Perspective
£13.99
Cognella, Inc Death Dying and Beyond
£62.70
Lexington Books The 53
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Fitzcarraldo Editions The Plague
Book SynopsisWhat do you do with death and dying when they can no longer be pushed to the outer limits of your lived experience or dismissed from your conscious mind? How do you live with death or rather how do you ‘live death’ when death comes too close, seeming to enter the very air you breathe? The Plague is a collection of essays guiding us from the Covid-19 pandemic through to the war in Ukraine in order to imagine a world in which a radical respect for death might exist alongside a fairer distribution of the earth’s wealth. ‘Living death’ will appear as something of a refrain, a reminder that to think of death as an avoidable intruder into how we order our lives, especially in the West, is an act of defiance that is doomed to fail. In the thought of the philosopher Simone Weil, who plays a key role in the book, only if we admit the limits of the human, will we stop vaunting the brute illusion of earthly power.Trade Review‘The vitality of these valuable essays on death, war and Simone Weil keeps on giving long after the last page has been turned.’ — Deborah Levy, Guardian'Rose cements her place at the summit of Anglo literary culture. The book is also testament to the essay as the most exhilarating form through which to confront the history of the present … Rose never tries to have the last word or entomb her subjects in cast-iron conclusions about their life and thought. She invites us to do our own thinking, to grapple with the violence and paradoxes of existence.' — Gavin Jacobson, New Statesman‘This is a brief but beautifully written book, full of memorable insights into life, death, and politics. In particular, the final essay on Weil is a wonderfully moving mix of biographical, philosophical and political analysis…In Weil’s writings, Rose finds a glimmer of hope in dark times: “against race, class and national affiliations, Weil’s heart is beating right across the globe”.’ — P.D. Smith, Guardian‘It’s really hard for me to overestimate how important [Rose’s] work has been for me... I don’t feel like that about very many writers.’ — Maggie Nelson‘Jacqueline Rose has no peer among critics of her generation. The brilliance of her literary insight, the lucidity of her prose, and the subtlety of her analyses are simply breathtaking.’ — Edward Said‘A surfeit of elegance and intelligence.’ — Ali Smith‘One of the most original and intellectually sophisticated minds at work today.’ — Eimear McBride‘As a literary scholar and psychoanalytic thinker, Rose has long insisted that we pay close attention to the subterranean fears, fantasies, and narratives that structure our most pressing sociopolitical problems.’ — Merve Emre, The Nation‘To read Rose is to understand that there is no border between us and the world; it is an invitation to a radical kind of responsibility.’ — Parul Sehgal, New York Times‘[Rose’s] work remains surprising and original ... The more I read her, the more I see the world through her questions ... Her real power, what makes her necessary as well as unique, may be how she teaches readers to ask probing questions on their own.’ — Christine Smallwood, New York Review of Books‘Instead of avoiding that foregone conclusion, these essays — which touch on everything from the pandemic to the war in Ukraine — encourage a radical respect of death as, if nothing else, a reminder of our equality as humans, which feels especially important in a world that grows less equal by the day.’ Róisin Lanigan, i-D‘It’s a profound take on creating a more just world in the wake of the pandemic.’ — Publishers Weekly‘This book, is …startingly up-to-date in ways that other explorations of the pandemic are perhaps not, set as it is on reminding the reader that, while we may be some way out of the woods, there remains a discomforting after-effect. So, despite dealing explicitly with the pandemic, Rose establishes a formulation within a period bookended by two key events: the beginning of UK lockdown and the invasion of Ukraine, yoking them together in accordance with Albert Camus’ assertion that “the two realities of history which to date people have never been prepared for [are] plagues and wars,” and an understanding that, often, one disaster bleeds into the next. This stands in quiet structural defiance to the usual narrative rolled out by news outlets, in which each constituent tragedy stands isolated and disconnected from the other.’ — Lia Rockey, The Arts Desk
£12.34
Legenda A Gaping Wound
£16.51
John Blake Publishing Ltd Great British Suicides
Book SynopsisHow does someone feel themselves so without hope that they have to kill themselves? What kind of a desire for revenge can provoke someone to go that far and how do they go about doing it? This work looks at the favoured methods of suicide and considers the impact it has on our culture and our understanding of what our lives mean.
£13.26
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Roman Death: The Dying and the Dead in Ancient Rome
Book SynopsisThis is an original study of the role and rituals of death in Roman civilization. Death never ceases to fascinate the living and in Roman society, where the mortality was high, people were forced to confront the brevity of life and the impact of death. What did death mean and symbolise to the Romans? What does 'Roman death' tell the modern reader about ancient society? This accessible and engaging book ranges from suicides, funeral feasts, necromancy and Hades to mourning, epitaphs and posthumous damnation.Trade ReviewA comprehensive survey of attitudes to dying in Rome ... Valerie Hope takes us on a journey that starts with attitudes to mortality, through death scenes and funerals, and ends with mourning and commemorations of the dead. * BBC History Magazine *Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1: Facing Mortality; 2: Death Scenes; 3: Funerals and Feasts; 4: Heaven and Hell; 5: Mourning the Dead; 6: Remembering the Dead.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Mourning for Diana
Book SynopsisThe unexpected death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in Paris on August 31st 1997 led to a period of mourning over the next week that took the world by surprise. Major institutions - the media, the royal family, the church, the police - for once had no pre-planned script. For the public, this was a story with an ending they had not anticipated. How did these institutions and the public create a cultural order in the face of such disorder? Both those involved in the mourning and those who objected to it struggled to understand the depth and breadth of emotion shaking Britain and the world. Mourning was focused on London, where Diana's body lay, and on Diana's home, Kensington Palace. Throughout the city and especially in Kensington Gardens, millions left shrines to the dead princess made of flowers, messages, teddy bears and other objects. In towns and villages around the UK, this was repeated. The mourning was also global, with media dominated by Diana's death in scores of countries. The funeral itself had a record-breaking world television audience, and messages of condolence floated around the globe in cyber-space. How unique was all this? Does it mark a shift in the culture of mourning, of the position of the monarchy, of the role of emotion in British culture? How does it compare with the mourning for other super-icons - JFK, Evita, Elvis, and Monroe? Was it media-induced hysteria? Or was it simply a magnification of normal mourning behaviour? Focusing on the extraordinary actions of millions of ordinary people, this book documents what happened and shows how a modern rational society coped with the unexpected in a proto-revolutionary week that left participants and objectors alike asking 'why did we behave like this?'Trade Review'This (is a) sparkling collection of essays.'Journal of Contemporary Religion ' 'The Mourning for Diana' excels in demonstrating the virtues of adopting a 'sociologistic' approach to public mourning whilst at the same time drawing attention to the limits of conventional sociology in explaining how the intra-personal and experiential combine in the process of mourning.'Michael Brennan, Dept of Sociology, University of Warwick'Of all the books written about Diana, Princess of Wales, this must be one of the most scholarly ... For anyone interested in death, grief and mourning, this is a well-written, stimulating and valuable book.'Bereavement Care'A careful, dispassionate, and detailed presentation of the public events of mourning.'Religious Studies Review'A brilliant book. It combines all of the qualities that contribute to the making of a good read ... An excellent and, indeed, most significant contribution to the social sciences and humanities. It is a terrific achieTable of ContentsList of illustrations, Notes on Contributors, Preface, Part 1: Introduction, 1. The Week of Mourning Douglas Davies, 2. The Questions People Asked, Part 2: Contexts and Comments, 3. Royalty and Public Grief in Britain: an Historical Perspective 1817-1997, 4. The Moving Power of Moving Images: Television Constructions of Princess Diana, 5. The Children's Princess, 6. A Nation Under Stress: the Psychological Impact of Diana's Death, 7. Secular Religion and the Public Response to Diana's Death, Part 3: London, 8. Kensington Gardens: From Royal Park to Temporary Cemetery, 9. Pilgrims and Shrines, 10. A Bridge of Flowers, 11. Policing the Funeral, 12. Liturgy and Music, Part 4: The Global and the Provincial, 13. Books of Condolence, 14. A Provincial City Shows Respect: Shopping and Mourning in Bath, 15. America Responds to Diana's Death: Spontaneous Memorials, 16. An American Paean for Diana, an Unlikely Feminist Hero, 17. Jokes on the Death of Diana, Part 5: Conclusion, 18. And the Consequence Was, Index
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Common Ground Publishing Death, Our Last Illusion: A Scientific and Spiritual Probing of Consciousness Through Death
£42.30
Companion Press,US Sarah's Journey: One Child's Experience with the Death of Her Father
Book SynopsisBased on the belief that children mourn in their own unique ways and need love and support of the adults who care for them, this book describes the grief experience of Sarah, an eight-year-old whose father was killed in a car accident, and offers compassionate, practical counsel for adults who want to help grieving children. Covered are common concerns such as normal behaviors in grieving kids, helping children with funerals, grieving kids at school, “misbehavior” in the grieving child, and helping children heal. Within each chapter, Sarah’s story is followed by a counselor’s perspective that offers practical do's and dont's.
£8.95
Griefwork Center, Inc. But I Didn't Say Goodbye: Helping Families After a Suicide
£13.20
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Meaningful Funerals: Meeting the Theological and Pastoral Challenge in a Postmodern Era
Book SynopsisThis work addresses how funerals may be created which are not only relevant for the bereaved, but which also have theological integrity. The majority of the British population no longer attend church yet when bereaved, many still turn to church representatives to perform funerals for their loved ones. This book addresses how funerals may be created which are not only relevant for the bereaved, but also have theological integrity. A paradigm shift in the manner by which funerals are constructed is proposed - from imposing alien liturgies to creating a unique ritual which evolves from the meeting of the stories of the bereaved and that of the ritual leader. The argument for the co-construction of funerals is informed by contemporary models of grief and Kelly's own experience with bereaved parents.Co-construction is a process which is centred on listening and empowering, and involves offering the bereaved choices from a range of ritual resources to help them shape their funeral's content. Such a process facilitates sensitive regulation of grief in an age where its privatisation has meant the bereaved are often bereft of a means by which to benchmark their feelings, behaviour and decision making.Trade ReviewMention -Book News, November 2008Review in Church Times, February 2009"...the possibility should be offered and planned for, if we take the research and insights of this book as seriously as it deserves." Theology, November 2009Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The postmodern context and the recognition of a need for ritual; 3. Grieving in a postmodern era; 4. Being and doing in the pastoral and spiritual care of the bereaved; 5. Ritualising death - formal and informal moments; 6. Co-construction - meeting spiritual needs and facilitating grief; 7. Co-construction - opportunities for the church; 8. Paradigm shifts; Appendix: Ritual resources - sacred and secular.
£32.99
White Crow Productions At the Hour of Death: A New Look at Evidence for Life After Death
£12.99
White Crow Productions The Departed Among the Living: An Investigative Study of Afterlife Encounters
£14.11
White Crow Productions Things You Can Do When You're Dead!: True Accounts of After Death Communication
£14.11
Intellectual Perspective Press How To Help Him
£11.91
White Crow Productions Harmony of the Universe: The Science Behind Healing, Prayer and Spiritual Development
£12.99
Saraband Happy Death Club
£14.00
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Suicide and the Surviving Spirit
£10.29
Pitchstone Publishing Comforting Thoughts About Death that Have Nothing
Book SynopsisA unique take on death and bereavement without a belief in God or an afterlife Accepting death is never easy, but we don’t need religion to find peace, comfort, and solace in the face of death. In this inspiring and life-affirming collection of short essays, prominent atheist author Greta Christina offers secular ways to handle your own mortality and the death of those you love.Trade Review"In this book Greta Christina tackles the subject of death with the insight of a philosopher and the relaxed candor of a friendthat really cool, intelligent friend who understands and cares." David Niose , author, Fighting Back the Right: Reclaiming America from the Attack on Reason"This is a book about the philosophy of death that actually confronts the practical reality of it, and helps you come to practical terms with it . . . The best book on the atheist philosophy of death you are likely ever to read." Richard Carrier, author, Sense and Goodness without God"Greta Christina continues to provide unique advice and information to the growing community of seculars. We all need to consider our mortality and learn positive and productive ways to deal with our inevitable deadline. Thanks for this little book of wisdom. Christina has written a handbook we can all use. But it should be in the hands of every hospital and military chaplain, every hospice care giver, even ministers, etc. No secular person should be subjected to supernatural ideas and wishful thinking when they are dealing with death, dying and grief." Darrel Ray, founder , Recovering from Religion
£10.52
£12.34
Tranquility Press Dignity In Death
£9.49
Epigraph Publishing Its All Grace
£15.19
Chapbook Press - Schuler Books Closing the Circle
£19.64
Carol Lee From the Dead to You
£7.89
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Near Death Experiences Vol. 2: The Truth Revealed
£11.52
Springer Nature Switzerland AG End of Life and People with Intellectual and
Book SynopsisThis book on end of life examines how to include people with intellectual and developmental disability in the inevitability of dying and death. Comprising 17 chapters, it addresses challenging and under-researched topics including suicide, do-not-resuscitate, advance care planning, death doulas and accessible funerals. Topics reflect everyday community, palliative care, hospice and disability services.The book proposes that the rights of people with disabilities should be supported up to and after their death. Going beyond problem identification, the chapters offer positive, evidence-supported responses that translate research to practice, together with practice examples and resources grounded in lived experience. The book is applicable to readers from the disability field, and mainstream health professionals who assist people with disability in emergency care, palliative care or end-of-life planningTable of ContentsChapter 1: Current and New Developments in Death, Dying and End-Of-Life Care Policies and Practices.- Chapter 2: Experience of End-of-Life Issues by People with Intellectual Disability.- Chapter 3: Suicide and Autism: A Lifespan Perspective.- Chapter 4: Advance Care Planning with and for People who have Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.- Chapter 5: Decision-Making at the End of Life: Challenges and Opportunities for People with Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities in Residential Homes in Germany.- Chapter 6: How People with Intellectual Disability are Dying and Implications for Quality Care.- Chapter 7: Living and Dying Well with Dementia.- Chapter 8: Building shared end-of-life supports and cross-training for hospice/palliative and intellectual disability services providers.- Chapter 9: Supporting People with Intellectual Disability at End of Life: Moral Distress among Staff Caregivers During COVID-19.- Chapter 10: Accessible Funerals and People with Intellectual Disability.- Chapter 11: End-of-Life Doulas and People Living with Intellectual and Developmental Disability.- Chapter 12: Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children with Intellectual Disabilities.- Chapter 13: End-of-life Issues and Support Needs of People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disability.- Chapter 14: The Process of Dying.- Chapter 15: Use of Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders.- Chapter 16: Positioning the Issues: An Agenda for Future End-of-life Research, Policy and Practice.- Chapter 17 End-of Life Resources.
£113.99
Saage Books Leben nach dem Tod
£17.95
tredition Damit sie es leichter haben
£17.95
BoD - Books on Demand Selbstmord ist nie die Lösung
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BoD - Books on Demand Selbstbestimmt Sterben
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BoD - Books on Demand Beibuch I
£14.50
BoD - Books on Demand Beibuch III Suizidhilfe in Deutschland
£11.90
Books on Demand Hospizarbeit Woher - Wohin ?
£16.50
BoD - Books on Demand Beibuch
£17.75
BoD - Books on Demand Way Back
£19.12
Expertition. Jenseits des Abschieds
£28.40
Clube de Autores O Grande Universo Das Memórias
£16.71
Clube de Autores Contos Esotéricos E Exotéricos
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Clube de Autores O Ano Macabro.
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Brill Passionate Women: Female Suicide in Late Imperial China
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of original essays which focuses on the causes, meanings and significance of female suicides in Ming and Qing China. It is the first attempt in English-language scholarship to revise earlier views of female self-destruction that had been shaped by the May Fourth Movement and anti-Confucian critiques of Chinese culture, and to consider the matter of female suicide in the wider context of more recent scholarship on women and gender relations in late imperial China. The essays also reveal the world of tensions, conflicting demands and expectations, and a variety of means by which both women and men made moral sense of their lives in late imperial China. The volume closes with an extensive bibliography of relevant and important Chinese, Japanese, and Western publications related to female suicide in late imperial China.
£85.12
Brill Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe: Contemplation and Commemoration in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania
Book SynopsisIn Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe, Aleksandra Koutny-Jones explores the emergence of a remarkable cultural preoccupation with death in Poland-Lithuania (1569-1795). Examining why such interests resonated so strongly in the Baroque art of this Commonwealth, she argues that the printing revolution, the impact of the Counter-Reformation, and multiple afflictions suffered by Poland-Lithuania all contributed to a deep cultural concern with mortality. Introducing readers to a range of art, architecture and material culture, this study considers various visual evocations of death including 'Dance of Death' imagery, funerary decorations, coffin portraiture, tomb chapels and religious landscapes. These, Koutny-Jones argues, engaged with wider European cultures of contemplation and commemoration, while also being critically adapted to the specific context of Poland-Lithuania.Trade Review"..her book is the first comprehensive overview of many of the varied aspects of what [the author] calls 'visual cultures of death'. [...] Koutny-Jones [...] points to unique or unfamiliar iconographical features of monuments or images that previously have been unduly ignored or neglected. [...] Her well informed study takes up the argument for considering alternatives to earlier models of cultural innovation and diffusion." Professor Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Princeton University, in Print Quarterly, XXXIV, 2017, 1 "As the author states, the goal of this monograph is to ‘synthesise a diverse body of artistic material previously omitted from international scholarship’ (p. 13). It delivers handsomely on that promise. Making this material available to the English-speaking reader for the first time in such a comprehensive format, K.-J.’s study will appeal to historians of Polish-Lithuanian art and visual culture, scholars of East Central Europe and specialists in death studies. Clear and informative, the book has the potential to become a standard English-language reference on the subject." Tomasz Grusiecki, in: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 66 (2017).Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements ix A Note on Proper Names xii List of Maps and Figures xiii Glossary xvi Introduction: The Central European Age of Contemplation and Commemoration 1 1 Frameworks for Visual Cultures of Death in Poland-Lithuania 16 Artistic Patronage in Poland-Lithuania 18 The Commonwealth and the Counter-Reformation 23 The Central European Printing Revolution 33 Plague and Warfare 40 Conclusion 52 2 Death Personified: The Skeleton and the Printed Image 54 Anatomical Treatises and the Melancholy Death 56 The Triumph of Death 65 Allegories of Death: The Wheel of Death 75 Conclusion 87 3 The Dance of Death in Central Europe: Indigenous Variations on a Familiar Theme 91 Dancing with Death in Medieval Western Europe and beyond 93 Performing the Dance of Death in Medieval Poland: Master Polikarpus’s Dialogue with Death 99 Death and the Friars: The Role of the Observant Franciscans 102 Conclusion 117 4 Triumphant Funerals: Ceremonial, Coffin Portraits and Catafalques 121 Processional Pomp: Heraldic Displays and the Theatre of Death 123 Church Decorations and the Castrum Doloris 131 Coffin Portraits: Images of the Spiritual body 146 Commemoration in Context: The Burials of the Opaliński Magnate Family 154 Conclusion 164 5 Architectures and Landscapes of Death: Funerary Chapels and Jerusalem Sites 167 The Introduction of the Domed Chapel to Poland and Lithuania: Genesis and Symbolism 169 Central European Landscapes of Death: Jerusalem Sites 175 Decorating the Seventeenth-century Funerary Chapel: Sculpting the Passion and Personalising the Dance of Death 185 Conclusion 203 Conclusion 206 Appendix: The Kraków Taniec śmierci (Dance of Death): Transcription and Translation of Textual Cartouches 213 Bibliography 217 Index 249
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Brill Death in Documentaries: The Memento Mori Experience
Book SynopsisMemento mori is a broad and understudied cultural phenomenon and experience. The term “memento mori” is a Latin injunction that means “remember mortality,” or more directly, “remember that you must die.” In art and cultural history, memento mori appears widely, especially in medieval folk culture and in the well-known Dutch still life vanitas paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Yet memento mori extends well beyond these points in art and cultural history. In Death in Documentaries: The Memento Mori Experience, Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter suggests that documentaries are an especially apt form of contemporary memento mori. Bennett-Carpenter shows that documentaries may offer composed transformative experiences in which a viewer may renew one’s consciousness of mortality – and thus renew one’s life.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction Basics of Memento Mori From Art and Cultural History to Contemporary Documentary Features of Memento Mori and How Memento Mori Functions Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Documentaries A Rhetorically-Oriented Phenomenology Applied to Documentaries Composed Transformative Experience: Introducing Documentaries as Memento Mori The Program Ahead 1 Memento Mori in Art and Literature 1.1 Memento Mori in Art: As Symbol and as Picture 1.1.1 Memento Mori as Religious Image 1.1.2 Memento Mori as Still Life and as Portraiture 1.1.3 Memento Mori as Visual Quotation in Art, Including Photography 1.2 Memento Mori in Literature: As Verbal, Literary, and Ideational 1.2.1 Memento Mori as Picture Nomenclature and Verbal Instruction 1.2.2 Memento Mori as Reference in Literature: Verbatim and Ideational 1.3 Memento Mori in Film and Television 2 Charles and Ray Eames’s Powers of Ten as Memento Mori 2.1 The Eameses as Designers of Experiences that Communicate Ideas 2.2 Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Powers 2.2.1 Symbolic, Verbal, and Ideational Memento Mori in Powers 2.2.2 Memento Mori as Mortality-Index in Powers 2.2.3 Memento Mori as Convention and Experience in or Related to Powers 2.3 The Intellectually Transformative Point of Memento Mori Experience, Referenced by Powers 3 Memento Mori as “Consciousness of Mortality” and as a Cultural Phenomenon 3.1 Memento Mori is an Index of Death 3.1.1 Memento Mori (in Any Form) Refers to Death 3.1.2 Memento Mori Relies upon Consciousness, Memory in Particular 3.2 Memento Mori is Also an Artificial Convention 3.2.1 Memento Mori is an Artifice with a History or Cultural Genealogy that Relies upon Particular Social Reception 3.2.2 Memento Mori Relates to Various and Specific Genres, Media, and Materials 3.3 Memento Mori as Composed Transformative Experience 3.3.1 General Aspects of Memento Mori Experience 3.3.2 Intellectually, Ethically, and Affectively Transformative Elements of Memento Mori Experience 3.4 A Contemporary Form of Memento Mori: Documentaries 4 Ethical Memento Mori: Wim Wenders’s Notebook on Cities and Clothes 4.1 Wenders as Contemplative Documentarian of Mortals 4.2 Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Notebook 4.2.1 Memento Mori as Symbolic, Verbal, and Ideational in Notebook 4.2.2 Memento Mori as Mortality-index in Notebook 4.2.3 Memento Mori as Convention and Experience in or Related to Notebook 4.3 The Ethically Transformative Point of Memento Mori Experience, Referenced by Notebook 5 Documentaries as Contemporary Memento Mori 5.1 Documentaries Index Death 5.2 Documentaries Also Rely on Convention with a Particular History and Function 5.3 Documentaries as Composed Transformative Experience 5.3.1 Documentaries as Intellectually Transformative: Determining and Distinguishing the Real from Irreal 5.3.2 Documentaries as Ethically Transformative: Contemplating Appropriate Responses to the Mortal Condition 5.3.3 Documentaries as Affectively Transformative: Moving Individuals into Distinctive Human Experience 5.4 Levels of Analysis by Which Memento Mori is Identified in Specific Documentaries 6 Quintessential Memento Mori Experience: Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993) 6.1 A Word on Jarman as Ecstatic Seer 6.2 Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Blue 6.2.1 Memento Mori as Verbal, Literary, and Ideational in Blue 6.2.2 Memento Mori as Mortality-index and convention in or related to Blue 6.3 The Affectively Transformative Point of Memento Mori Experience, Referenced by Blue 7 Personal Memento Mori: The Iconic 9/11 Footage and the Threat of Death 7.1 The Viewer as Contemplative Seer of the Threat of Death 7.1.1 The 12th of September, 2001, Comet Burger Diner, usa 7.1.2 When Memento Mori Strikes Close 7.2 Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by the 9/11 Footage 7.2.1 Memento Mori as Symbolic, Ideational, and Composed in the 9/11 Footage 7.2.2 Memento Mori as Mediated Mortality-index, Indicated by the 9/11 Footage 7.3 Personally Transformative Points of Memento Mori Experience, Referenced by the 9/11 Footage 7.3.1 Realizing One’s Place as a Mortal in a Vast Cosmos 7.3.2 “Making one’s life” as a Mortal in 21st Century “glocal” Society 7.3.3 Moving One’s Self into Distinctive Human Experience 7.4 Counterpoint: Memento Mori as Death Threat in Extremist YouTube Videos 8 Conclusion and Future Prospects 8.1 After Death in Documentaries 8.2 From Memento Mori to Memento Vivere? 8.3 Memento Mori in New Media Environments References Bibliography Archives and Special Sites Footage Filmography (Chronological) Index
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Brill Ancient Egyptian Letters to the Dead: The Realm of the Dead through the Voice of the Living
Book SynopsisIn Ancient Egyptian Letters to the Dead: The Realm of the Dead through the Voice of the Living Julia Hsieh investigates the beliefs and practices of communicating with the dead in ancient Egypt through close lexical semantic analysis of extant Letters. Hsieh shows how oral indicators, toponyms, and adverbs in these Letters signal a practice that was likely performed aloud in a tomb or necropolis, and how the senders of these Letters demonstrate a belief in the power and omniscience of their deceased relatives and enjoin them to fight malevolent entities and advocate on their behalf in the afterlife. These Letters reflect universals in beliefs and practices and how humankind, past and present, makes sense of existence beyond death.Trade Review"This book is beautifully illustrated and includes a chart of extant letters to the dead and a glossary. All the texts quoted are translated, with full explanatory notes. While intended for specialists, it is by no means esoteric, providing us with a variety of perspectives on the ancient Egyptians." - Wilfred G.E. Watson, in The Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2022Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction 1 What Are the Letters to the Dead? 2 What Can We Infer from the Letters to the Dead? Part 1 The Senders 1 Orality and Intertextuality 1 Orality 2 Intertextuality 2 Where Were the Letters Composed, Performed, and Deposited? 1 Geospatial Indicators 2 The Use of Bowls and the mnṯꜣ.t Vessel Part 2 The Recipients 3 Characteristics and Abilities of the Akh 1 The Akh in the Letters to the Dead 2 Akh as Advocate 3 Adversaries and Malevolent Akh 4 Literacy in the Afterlife Part 3 Textual Analysis of the Letters to the Dead 5 Transliteration, Translation, and Text Notes 1 Cairo Linen 2 Qau Bowl 3 Chicago Jar Stand 4 Letter N3737 5 Letter N3500 6 Hu Bowl 7 Boston Jar Stand 8 Stela of Nebetitef and the Misplaced Letter to the Dead 9 Louvre Bowl 10 Berlin Bowl 11 Cairo Bowl 12 Qubbet el-Hawa Bowl 13 Papyrus Berlin 10481 and 10482 14 Horhotep Ostracon 15 Oxford Bowl 16 Moscow Bowl Conclusion Supplementary Texts Summary Chart of Extant Letters to the Dead Glossary Bibliography Index
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Brill Talking to the Dead: A Study of Irish Funerary Traditions
Book SynopsisTalking to the Dead is an essay on death and its tenacious hold on Irish culture. There are few traditions in which funerary motifs have been so ubiquitous in literature, popular rituals, folk representations, public rhetorics, even constructions of place. There are even fewer cultures in which funerary genres and preoccupations constitute the central thread of continuity. The Irish Theatrum Mortis is not simply an obsession of writers from the bards to Beckett and Heaney. Nor is it confined to contemporary Republican iconography. It is to be found in the pages of the local press, in acts of ritual resistance to unpopular decisions, in the way in which significant public events are narrated and framed. Though the funerary Ireland presented here may well yield to the new, positive self-image of the Celtic Tiger, it is the authors' contention that at the end of the twentieth century the funerary sign continues to define Irish identity. For good and ill, it is the centre that holds.
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Brill Birth and Death in Nineteenth-Century French Culture
Book SynopsisThis volume draws contributors from around the globe who represent the full range of approaches to scholarship in nineteenth-century French studies: historical, literary, cultural, art historical, philosophical, and comparative. The theme of the volume – Birth and Death – is one with particular resonance for nineteenth-century French studies, since the nineteenth century is commonly perceived as an age of new life and renovation. It is the epoch that witnessed an efflorescence of industrial and artistic progress, the birth of the individual and the birth of the novel, and the creation of an urban population in the major demographic shift from the rural provinces to Paris. At the same time, however, it is the century of Decadence and degeneration theory, marked by a prominent morbid aesthetic in the artistic sphere and a fascination with criminality, moral decay and the pathologization of racial and sexual minorities in the scientific discourses. It is also the century in which reflection on processes of artistic creation begins to problematize concepts of mimetic representation, the function of the author and the status of the text. In the context of the dialectical quality of nineteenth-century French culture, caught between an obsession with the new and innovative and a paranoid sense of its own encroaching decay, the twin themes of birth and death open onto a variety of issues – literary, social, historical, artistic – which are explored, interrogated and reassessed in the essays contained in this volume.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction On Textual Genesis, Translation and Resurrection Claudine GROSSIR: George Sand: la genèse des fins de romans Stephen GODDARD: Flaubert, Apuleius and Ovid: The Genesis of a Recurring Theme Larry DUFFY: Perdue en traduction: Translation, Betrayal and Death in Mérimée’s Carmen David EVANS: Le Tombeau de la Poésie: Strategies of Textual Resurrection in Mallarmé and Banville Narratives of Birth and Death Peter COGMAN: Wilde’s Salomé: Tenses, Tension and Progression in Salomé’s Final Monologue Isabelle MICHELOT: Figures de l’artiste et comédiens du réel: de la difficile naissance à l’implacable mort dans La Comédie humaine Barbara GIRAUD: Soeur Philomène ou comment la mort s’invite à l’hôpital Kiera VACLAVIK: Death for Beginners: Nineteenth-Century Katabatic Narratives for Young Readers Problematizing Maternity and Femininity Maria SCOTT: Stendhal’s Rebellious Mothers and the Fight Against Death-by-Maternity Catherine DUBEAU: La Mort de Madame de Vernon et les deux dénouements de Delphine: invention romanesque et réminiscences maternelles chez Madame de Staël Carmen K. MAYER-ROBIN: Midwifery and Malpractice in Fécondité: Zola’s Fictional History of Problematical Maternities Nathalie DUMAS: L’Érotisme cristallin de Théophile Gautier: étude de la figure de la ‘morte amoureuse’ dans les contes fantastiques Aestheticizing Bodily Death Philippe BERTHIER: L’Évangile de la pourriture selon Saint Huysmans: Lydwine de Schiedam Isabelle DROIT: Une esthétique de la mort au dix-neuvième siècle: Alphonse Daudet Pascal CARON: Selon Max Nordau: le poème naturel du corps de Mallarmé Claire MORAN: The Aesthetics of Self-Skeletonization in James Ensor Notes on Contributors Index
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