Dead Portraits In A Living Room
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Dead Portraits In A Living Room
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Author : Gregory Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2011-12-09
Dead Portraits In A Living Room written by Gregory Wilson and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-09 with Poetry categories.
All the poems between My Momma Did Say I Would Meet A Girl Like You and Untitled are observations, reminiscences, and insights stories within a story. Using the river motif and oral tradition in Untitled the poet underscores certain thematic and analogous paradigms within a socio-cultural, geo-political landscape. This landscape is America. Why America? Well, Long Creek runs from the back of our house into the Roaring River. Moreover, all the diverse rivers of the world run into the great rivers of America. Similarly, peoples from across the globe stream into America the land of opportunity. America then, has become an inter-cultural, intracultural dynamic; framework a cauldron that brews an alchemy of ideas that is characteristic of a renewed people called Americans. Many of the poems, their titles and the images within them, find a connection, a culmination even, in the last poem of this collection, the revelation Untitled.
Dead Portraits In A Living Room
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Author : Gregory Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2011-12
Dead Portraits In A Living Room written by Gregory Wilson and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12 with Poetry categories.
All the poems between My Momma Did Say I Would Meet A Girl Like You and Untitled are observations, reminiscences, and insights stories within a story. Using the river motif and oral tradition in Untitled the poet underscores certain thematic and analogous paradigms within a socio-cultural, geo-political landscape. This landscape is America. Why America? Well, Long Creek runs from the back of our house into the Roaring River. Moreover, all the diverse rivers of the world run into the great rivers of America. Similarly, peoples from across the globe stream into America the land of opportunity. America then, has become an inter-cultural, intracultural dynamic; framework a cauldron that brews an alchemy of ideas that is characteristic of a renewed people called Americans. Many of the poems, their titles and the images within them, find a connection, a culmination even, in the last poem of this collection, the revelation Untitled .
Portraiture
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Author : Shearer West
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2004-04-08
Portraiture written by Shearer West and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-08 with Art categories.
This fascinating new book explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points, and asks key questions about its nature. How has portraiture changed over the centuries? How have portraits represented their subjects, and how have they been interpreted? Issues of identity, modernity, and gender are considered within a cultural and historical context. Shearer West uncovers much intriguing detail about a genre that has often been seen as purely representational, featuring examples from African tribes to Renaissance princes, and from 'stars' such as David and Victoria Beckham to ordinary people. In the process, she shows us how to communicate with the past in an exciting new way.
All The Living And The Dead
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Author : Hayley Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-03-31
All The Living And The Dead written by Hayley Campbell and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'A superlative piece of writing... provocative, loving and profound' THE TIMES 'Without exaggeration, an awe-inspiring achievement' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Moving, funny, and liable to unexpectedly cause me to tear up' NEIL GAIMAN An Irish Times Book of the Year In this profoundly moving and remarkable book, journalist Hayley Campbell explores society's attitudes towards death, and the impact on those who work with it every day. 'If the reason we're outsourcing this burden is because it's too much for us,' she asks, 'how do they deal with it?' Would facing death directly make us fear it less? Inspired by her own childhood fascination with the subject, she meets embalmers and a former death row executioner, mass fatality investigators and a bereavement midwife. She talks to gravediggers who have already dug their own graves and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear. Through Campbell's incisive and candid interviews with people who see death every day, she asks: Does seeing death change you as a person? And are we all missing something vital by letting death remain hidden? 'Essential, compassionate, honest' Audrey Niffenegger, author of THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE 'Never macabre... poignant... Transformative' FINANCIAL TIMES
Materialities Of Passing
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Author : Peter Bjerregaard
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-17
Materialities Of Passing written by Peter Bjerregaard and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-17 with Social Science categories.
‘Passing’ is a common euphemism for the death of a person, as he or she is said to ‘pass away’ or ‘pass on’. This open-ended saying has at its heart a notion of transformation from one state to another, which in turn grants the possibility of grasping or approximating the passage of time and the materiality of death and decay. This book begins with the idea that since all material things - whether animals, human beings, objects or buildings - undergo some form of passing, then the specific transformation in these passages and the materiality actively given to it can offer us a grasp of otherwise precarious temporalities. It examines how human beings strive to relate to the temporal dimension of death and decay, by giving new shape and direction to being and by examining its natural transformations. Focusing on the materiality of passing, and thereby the relationship between embodiment, temporality and death, Materialities of Passing offers rich case studies from Europe, Papua New Guinea, South Africa and the Russian Far East for exploring the material, spatial and directional aspects of the very interface between life and death. As such, it will appeal to scholars of anthropology, death studies, archaeology, philosophy and cultural studies.
Narrative Mourning
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Author : Kathleen M. Oliver
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-17
Narrative Mourning written by Kathleen M. Oliver and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Narrative Mourning explores death and its relics as they appear within the confines of the eighteenth-century British novel. It argues that the cultural disappearance of the dead/dying body and the introduction of consciousness as humanity’s newfound soul found expression in fictional representations of the relic (object) or relict (person). In the six novels examined in this monograph—Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison; Sarah Fielding's David Simple and Volume the Last; Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling; and Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho—the appearance of the relic/relict signals narrative mourning and expresses (often obliquely) changing cultural attitudes toward the dead. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Death And Dying In Contemporary Japan
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Author : Hikaru Suzuki
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-03-12
Death And Dying In Contemporary Japan written by Hikaru Suzuki and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-12 with Social Science categories.
This book, based on extensive original research, explores the various ways in which Japanese people think about death and how they approach the process of dying and death. It shows how new forms of funeral ceremonies have been developed by the funeral industry, how traditional grave burial is being replaced in some cases by the scattering of ashes and forest mortuary ritual, and how Japanese thinking on relationships, the value of life, and the afterlife are changing. Throughout, it assesses how these changes reflect changing social structures and social values.
The Routledge Handbook Of The Senses In The Ancient Near East
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Author : Kiersten Neumann
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-09-30
The Routledge Handbook Of The Senses In The Ancient Near East written by Kiersten Neumann and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-30 with History categories.
This Handbook is a state-of-the-field volume containing diverse approaches to sensory experience, bringing to life in an innovative, remarkably vivid, and visceral way the lives of past humans through contributions that cover the chronological and geographical expanse of the ancient Near East. It comprises thirty-two chapters written by leading international contributors that look at the ways in which humans, through their senses, experienced their lives and the world around them in the ancient Near East, with coverage of Anatolia, Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Persia, from the Neolithic through the Roman period. It is organised into six parts related to sensory contexts: Practice, production, and taskscape; Dress and the body; Ritualised practice and ceremonial spaces; Death and burial; Science, medicine, and aesthetics; and Languages and semantic fields. In addition to exploring what makes each sensory context unique, this organisation facilitates cross-cultural and cross-chronological, as well as cross-sensory and multisensory comparisons and discussions of sensory experiences in the ancient world. In so doing, the volume also enables considerations of senses beyond the five-sense model of Western philosophy (sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell), including proprioception and interoception, and the phenomena of synaesthesia and kinaesthesia. The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East provides scholars and students within the field of ancient Near Eastern studies new perspectives on and conceptions of familiar spaces, places, and practices, as well as material culture and texts. It also allows scholars and students from adjacent fields such as Classics and Biblical Studies to engage with this material, and is a must-read for any scholar or student interested in or already engaged with the field of sensory studies in any period.
Museums And Source Communities
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Author : Alison K. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-06-28
Museums And Source Communities written by Alison K. Brown and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-28 with Reference categories.
This volume combines some of the most influential published research in this emerging field with newly commissioned essays on the issues, problems and lessons involved in collaborating museums and source communities. Focusing on museums in the UK, North America and the Pacific, the book highlights three areas which demonstrate the new developments most clearly: the museum as field site or 'contact zone' - a place which source community members enter for purposes of consultation and collaboration visual repatriation - the use of photography to return images of ancestors, historical moments and material heritage to source communities exhibition case studies - these are discussed to reveal the implications of cross-cultural and collaborative research for museums, and how such projects have challenged established attitudes and practices. As the first overview of its kind, this collection will be essential reading for museum staff working with source communities, for community members involved with museum programmes, and for students and academics in museum studies and social anthropology.
I Shall Sing And Dance In The Rain
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Author : Gregory Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2014-02-28
I Shall Sing And Dance In The Rain written by Gregory Wilson and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-28 with Self-Help categories.
Jamaica Inspired by the hardships, tests, and trials in life as well as the undying faith of humanity that shines like a rainbow coming through after the rain, internationally recognized poet, Gregory Wilson shares a collection of inspiration. His I Shall Sing and Dance in the Rain presents a treasure trove of insightful and powerfully motivating lyrical words that celebrates life and inspires readers to fight against entities that seek to discourage humanity from living with pride, dignity and in unity. I Shall Sing and Dance in the Rain is a collection of 100 poetic, philosophic, stylistic gems and insights that are loaded with wisdom and intuition. It explores the heart of understanding the individual within the framework of humanity. It involves all human beings as they communicate and integrate to celebrate themselves and one another. Promoting the need for humanity to embrace a better, higher standard of living and a more supreme quality of life, Wilsons collection of poems, with astounding degree of originality, freshness, and excitement is the key to achieving his goal. Highly relatable, I Shall Sing and Dance in the Rain is not only a poets expression but also a heartwarming celebration of the beauty of life and the strength of man.