Who Telleth a Tale of Unspeaking Death?

ISBN-13: 9781789970326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 174 str.

Wolfgang Marx

Opis

This thought-provoking volume of essays, wide-ranging in scope and interdisciplinary in its approach, engages with questions surrounding the many meanings ascribed to death and the memorialisation of the dead.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - Wolfgang Marx: Introduction - Michael Laffan: Illustrious Corpses: Burying Irish Nationalist Heroes - Sheryl Lynch: Crying by Singing Out: Performing the Cry-die of North West Cameroon in Dublin - Corinna Ricasoli - The Tomb of Pietro da Cortona in Santi Luca e Martina al Foro - Andreas Hess: How Tocqueville became 'Tocqueville' - Gustave de Beaumont's Letters from Cannes and the First Edition of Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville - Dan Farrelly: Philosophical Reflections on Reality and Death from Plato to Novalis, Schopenhauer, and Pieper - Alan Baird: Human Attitudes towards the Death of Animals - Joseph Brady: Ignoring Death - War, Maps and Advertising - Wolfgang Marx: Brecht and Weill's Berliner Requiem as a Necropolitical Statement - Contributors - Illustrations.