Birth and Death in British Culture : Liminality, Power, and Performance.
Pankratz, Anette.
Birth and Death in British Culture : Liminality, Power, and Performance. - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. - 1 online resource (243 pages)
Includes bibliographical references.
Why discuss birth and death when they lie outside discourse, confronting us Other experiences that cannot be put into words? And why look at them together when they are so much unlike each other, one the moment of fresh beginnings, joys, and the relative certainties of existence, the other the moment of life's end, grief, and the relative uncertainties of non-existence? Because it turns out that both events, while virtually unrepresentable, have spawned a host of representations, narratives, r ...
9781443839334 1443839337 (hardback) (hardback)
Popular culture--Great Britain.
Cultural studies.
Sociology: death & dying.
Sociology: birth.
HISTORY--Europe--Great Britain.
Popular culture.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
DA566.4 .B55 2012
306.0942 941.082
Birth and Death in British Culture : Liminality, Power, and Performance. - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. - 1 online resource (243 pages)
Includes bibliographical references.
Why discuss birth and death when they lie outside discourse, confronting us Other experiences that cannot be put into words? And why look at them together when they are so much unlike each other, one the moment of fresh beginnings, joys, and the relative certainties of existence, the other the moment of life's end, grief, and the relative uncertainties of non-existence? Because it turns out that both events, while virtually unrepresentable, have spawned a host of representations, narratives, r ...
9781443839334 1443839337 (hardback) (hardback)
Popular culture--Great Britain.
Cultural studies.
Sociology: death & dying.
Sociology: birth.
HISTORY--Europe--Great Britain.
Popular culture.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
DA566.4 .B55 2012
306.0942 941.082