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

Автор: Armando Petrucci

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Издател: 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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Автор

Armando Petrucci

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

1998

страници

163

EAN

9780804728591

ISBN

0804728593

Enbook ID

04716576

Издател

Stanford University Press

Теглоt

512

Размери

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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