Author: Alan Warren Friedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521442619
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This 1995 book analyses of the semiotics of death and dying in twentieth-century fiction, history and culture.
Language: en
Pages: 339
Pages: 339
This 1995 book analyses of the semiotics of death and dying in twentieth-century fiction, history and culture.
Language: en
Pages: 199
Pages: 199
This book asks why Brontë, Dickens, and Collins saw the narrative act as a series of textual murders and resurrections? Drawing on theorists such as Derrida, Blanchot, and de Man, Zigarovich maintains that narrating death was important to the understanding of absence, separation, and displacement in an industrial and destabilized
Language: en
Pages: 276
Pages: 276
The humanities in higher education are too often labeled as impractical and are not usually valued in today’s marketplace. Yet in professional fields, such as the health sciences, interest in what the humanities can offer has increased. Advocates claim the humanities offer health care professionals greater insight into how to
Language: en
Pages: 228
Pages: 228
How do twentieth and twenty-first century artists bring forth the powerful reality of death when it exists in memory and lived experience as something that happens only to others? Death in American Texts and Performances takes up this question to explore the modern and postmodern aesthetics of death. Working between
Language: en
Pages: 328
Pages: 328
This book discusses sex and death in the eighteenth-century, an era that among other forms produced the Gothic novel, commencing the prolific examination of the century’s shifting attitudes toward death and uncovering literary moments in which sexuality and death often conjoined. By bringing together various viewpoints and historical relations, the
Language: en
Pages: 408
Pages: 408
This work covers all aspects of thanatology, the study of death and dying and the care of dying and the bereaved. Its topics include the role of the caregiver, the process of grief and bereavement, religious and spiritual perspectives, and how children and adolescents cope with death.
Language: en
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Books about JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology
Language: en
Pages: 202
Pages: 202
I interpret the Book of Job as literature of survival, reading the death imagery in Job as the complex articulation of traumatic experience.
Language: en
Pages: 584
Pages: 584
This volume offers a comprehensive representation of the exciting, pivotal, and urgent nature of literary Modernism, as well as more recent approaches including the "global turn." Modernism can be difficult to understand without an awareness of contemporary concerns, so Mia Carter and Alan Friedman incorporate texts from a wide variety
Language: en
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