LEADER 03445nam 2200649 450 001 9910787174503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78533-510-3 010 $a1-78238-434-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781782384342 035 $a(CKB)3710000000245409 035 $a(EBL)1644353 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001348076 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12619033 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001348076 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11370857 035 $a(PQKB)11212847 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1644353 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10941684 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL648269 035 $a(OCoLC)891445656 035 $a(DE-B1597)637384 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781782384342 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1644353 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000245409 100 $a20141001h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe power of death $econtemporary reflections on death in western society /$fedited by Maria-Jose? Blanco and Ricarda Vidal 210 1$aNew York ;$aOxford, England :$cBerghahn,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-78238-433-2 311 $a1-322-17012-6 327 $aTitle page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; PART I DEATH IN SOCIETY; 1 Life Extension, Immortality and the Patient Voice; 2 Beyond 'Mourning and Melancholia'; 3 War and Requiem Compositions in the Twentieth Century; PART II DEATH IN LITERATURE; 4 Understanding Death/Writing Bereavement; 5 A Way of Sorrows for the Twentieth Century; 6 From Self-Erasure to Self-Affirmation; 7 Habeas Corpse ; 8 The Fascination with Torture and Death in Twenty-First-Century Crime Fiction; PART III DEATH IN VISUAL CULTURE 327 $a9 The Power of Negative Creation - Why Art by Serial Killers Sells10 Screening the Dying Individual Film, Mortality and the Ethics of Spectatorship; 11 The Broken Body as Spectacle; 12 Death on Display; PART IV CEMETERIES AND FUNERALS; 13 The Romanian Carnival of Death and the Merry Cemetery of Sa?pa?nt?a; 14 In the Dead of Night; 15 Scenarios of Death in Contexts of Mobility; 16 Karaoke Death; PART V PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON DEATH; 17 Death is Not What it Used to Be; 18 The Dad Project; Index 330 $a The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our lives. It examines the idea and experience of death from an interdisciplinary perspective, including studies of changing burial customs throughout Europe; an account of a"dying party" in the Netherlands; examinations of the fascination with violent death in crime fiction and the ph 606 $aDeath 606 $aDeath in literature 606 $aFuneral rites and ceremonies 615 0$aDeath. 615 0$aDeath in literature. 615 0$aFuneral rites and ceremonies. 676 $a306.9 702 $aBlanco$b Maria-Jose? 702 $aVidal$b Ricarda 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787174503321 996 $aThe power of death$93735525 997 $aUNINA