Listing 1 - 10 of 26 | << page >> |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
Arts, Modern --- Chance in art. --- Exquisite corpse (Game) --- Cadavre exquis (Game) --- Surrealist games
Choose an application
With grim humor and humorous grimness, In Search of the Great Dead engages the great themes of poetry: death and fame. The title poem of this collection records Richard Cecil's quest for the tombs of the famous dead. At first the search leads him on a tour of famous European tombstones-the grave of Chateaubriand in St. Malo, the shared tomb of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, Yeats's old Celtic cross in Sligo-but gradually it expands into areas where all the tombs have been erased by time or vandalism-the tombs of
Dead --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries
Choose an application
"Jonathan M. Weber examines the Mexican government's use of technological and scientific advancements to argue that the capital city, and thus the country as a whole, was capable of resolving public health dilemmas as part of the Porfirian administration's quest for modernization"--
Corpse removals --- Public health --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Dead --- Removal of corpses --- History. --- Removal
Choose an application
The human body is the locus of meaning, personhood, and our sense of the possibility of sanctity. The desecration of the human corpse is a matter of universal revulsion, taboo in virtually all human cultures. Not least for this reason, the unburied corpse quickly becomes a focal point of political salience, on the one hand seeming to express the contempt of state power toward the basic claims of human dignity--while on the other hand simultaneously bringing into question the very legitimacy of that power. In Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead, James Martel surveys the power of the body left unburied to motivate resistance, to bring forth a radically new form of agency, and to undercut the authority claims made by state power. Ranging across time and space from the battlefields of ancient Thebes to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, and taking in perspectives from such writers as Sophocles, Machiavelli, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, Judith Butler, Thomas Lacqueur, and Bonnie Honig, Martel asks why the presence of the abandoned corpse can be seen by both authorities and protesters as a source of power, and how those who have been abandoned or marginalized by structures of authority can find in a lifeless body fellow accomplices in their aspirations for dignity and humanity.
Society & culture: general --- Dead --- Death --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Philosophy
Choose an application
Traditional music of the Wechsel, styrian-lower austrian border region, 100 kms south of Vienna. Volume 1 „The religious song“ sung during the farmer’s traditional two-night corpse-watch at the bier in the house of the deceased. 192 songs with text, music and incipits, 3 CDs with historical recordings, dictionary of local dialect. CD 1: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:672 CD 2: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:727 CD 3: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:762. Volksmusik des Wechsels, Grenzlandschaft Steiermark-Niederösterreich. Teilband 1 „Das Geistliche Lied“ im bäuerlichen Brauch des Leichhüatns. Die „Leichhüatlieder“, welche zwei Nächte lang im Hause eines Verstorbenen vor dem aufgebahrten Toten gesungen wurden. 192 Lieder mit Text- und Melodievarianten, Melodienincipits, 3 CDs mit historischen Tonaufzeichnungen, Wörterbuch des lokalen Dialekts. CD 1: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:672 CD 2: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:727 CD 3: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:762.
Folk music --- History and criticism. --- Ethnic music --- Traditional music --- Folklore --- Music --- Traditional music in the Styrian / Lower Austrian Wechsel-region --- songs during the corpse-watch in the farmhouse of the deceased --- CDs --- historical recordings --- dictionary of local dialect --- incipits --- Nö.-steir. Wechselgebiet --- Geistliches Lied: Leichhüatlieder --- bäuerliche Tradition der Totenwache --- 3 CDs --- historische Tondokumente --- Wörterbuch --- Melodienincipits --- Aspang-Markt --- Gott --- Refrain --- Trattenbach --- Warth (Niederösterreich)
Choose an application
This book tells the story of the thousands of corpses that ended up in the hands of anatomists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Composed as a travel story from the point of view of the cadaver, this study offers a full-blown cultural history of death and dissection, with insights that easily go beyond the history of anatomy and the specific case of Belgium. From acquisition to disposal, the trajectories of the corpse changed under the influence of social policies, ideological tensions, religious sensitivities, cultures of death and broader changes in the field of medical ethics. Anatomists increasingly had to reconcile their ways with the diverse meanings that the dead body held. To a certain extent, as this book argues, they started to treat the corpse as subject rather than object. Interweaving broad historical evolutions with detailed case studies, this book offers unique insights into a field dominated by Anglo-American perspectives, evaluating the similarities and differences within other European contexts.
Dead. --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Europe, Central—History. --- Medicine—History. --- History. --- Civilization—History. --- Social history. --- History of Germany and Central Europe. --- History of Medicine. --- History of Science. --- Cultural History. --- Social History. --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history
Choose an application
For centuries readers have struggled to fuse the seemingly scattered pieces of Donne's works into a complete image of the poet and priest. In John Donne, Body and Soul, Ramie Targoff offers a way to read Donne as a writer who returned again and again to a single great subject, one that connected to his deepest intellectual and emotional concerns. Reappraising Donne's oeuvre in pursuit of the struggles and commitments that connect his most disparate works, Targoff convincingly shows that Donne believed throughout his life in the mutual necessity of body an
Body and soul in literature. --- Christianity and literature --- History --- Donne, John, --- Donn, John, --- Done, John, --- Donn, Dzhon, --- Dann, Dzhon, --- Донн, Джон, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Religion. --- Philosophy. --- john donne, poetry, poet, literature, classic, canon, priest, religion, spirituality, christianity, soul, theology, nonfiction, devotions upon emergent occasions, epistles, death, resurrection, corpse, afterlife, corporeality, deaths duell, sermon, verse, philosophy, criticism, separation, god, heaven, conversion, faith, eternal, eternity.
Choose an application
Do the dead have rights? In a persuasive argument, Don Herzog makes the case that the deceased's interests should be protected This is a delightfully deceptive works that start out with a simple, seemingly arcane question-can you libel or slander the dead?-and develops it outward, tackling larger and larger implications, until it ends up straddling the borders between law, culture, philosophy, and the meaning of life. A full answer to this question requires legal scholar Don Herzog to consider what tort law is actually designed to protect, what differences death makes-and what differences it doesn't-and why we value what we value. Herzog is one of those rare scholarly writers who can make the most abstract argument compelling and entertaining.
Dead. --- Human rights. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Law and legislation
Choose an application
Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914.
Tod (Motiv) --- Gothic novel. --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English --- English literature --- Death in literature. --- Literature. --- Literature & Literary Studies. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance. --- Biography, Literature & Literary studies --- History and criticism. --- Gothic --- English gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- English fiction --- Corpse. --- Creativity. --- Death. --- Gothic. --- Romanticism. --- Uncanny. --- Writing. --- nineteenth century.
Choose an application
Archives --- Memorialization --- Dead --- Political aspects. --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Memorialisation --- Memorials --- Documents --- Manuscript depositories --- Manuscript repositories --- Manuscripts --- Documentation --- History --- Information services --- Records --- Cartularies --- Charters --- Diplomatics --- Public records --- Depositories --- Repositories
Listing 1 - 10 of 26 | << page >> |
Sort by
|