Birth and Death in British Culture : Liminality, Power, and Performance.

By:

Pankratz, Anette

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (243 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781443839334
1443839337

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

306.0942 941.082

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DA566.4 .B55 2012

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Summary: 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 ...

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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 ...

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