Writing the Dead

Name: Writing the Dead
Brand: Stanford University Press
SKU: 9780804728591
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Death and Writing Strategies in the Western Tradition

Autor: Armando Petrucci

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Editura: Stanford University Press

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Written by one of the world s leading paleographers, this book poses two fundamental questions: When...

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Autor

Armando Petrucci

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1998

Pagini

163

EAN

9780804728591

ISBN

0804728593

Enbook ID

04716576

Editura

Stanford University Press

Greutate

512

Dimensiuni

160 x 237 x 23

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Written by one of the world s leading paleographers, this book poses two fundamental questions: When did human beings begin and why have they continued to decide that a certain number of their dead had a right to a written death? What differences have existed in the practice of writing death from age to age and culture to culture? Drawing principally on testimonials intended for public display, such as monuments, tombstones, and grave markings, as well as on scrolls, books, manuscripts, newspapers, and posters, the author reconstructs the ways Western cultures have used writing to commemorate the dead, from the tombs of ancient Egypt to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. The author argues that the relation between funereal remains and inscription is a profoundly political one. The recurring question Who merits a written death? demands a multifaceted reply, one that intersects such modes of human cultural history as the relation between the living and the dead, the control of territory, the formation and maintenance of power, the preservation of wealth, the right to individuality, and the symbolic and signifying value of written culture.

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