TY - BOOK AU - Pankratz,Anette AU - Viol,Claus-Ulrich AU - De Waal,Ariane TI - Birth and Death in British Culture: Liminality, Power, and Performance SN - 9781443839334 AV - DA566.4 .B55 2012 U1 - 306.0942941.082 PY - 2012/// CY - Newcastle upon Tyne PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing KW - Popular culture KW - Great Britain KW - Cultural studies KW - bicssc KW - Sociology: death & dying KW - Sociology: birth KW - HISTORY KW - Europe KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=522806 ER -