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Author : Vladislav Khodasevich
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-28

Necropolis written by Vladislav Khodasevich and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

In this unique literary memoir, “the greatest Russian poet of our time” pays tribute to the major authors of Russian Symbolist movement (Vladimir Nabokov). In Necropolis, the poet Vladislav Khodasevich turns to prose to memorializes some of the greatest writers of late 19th and early 20th century Russia. In the process, he delivers an insightful and intimate eulogy of the era. Recalling figures including Alexander Blok, Sergey Esenin, Fyodor Sologub, and the socialist realist Maxim Gorky, Khodasevich reveals how their lives and artworks intertwined, including a notorious love triangle among Nina Petrovskaya, Valery Bryusov, and Andrei Bely. Khodasevich testifies to the seductive and often devastating Symbolist ideal of turning one’s life into a work of art. He notes how this ultimately left one man with the task of memorializing his fellow artists after their deaths. Khodasevich’s portraits deal with revolution, disillusionment, emigration, suicide, the vocation of the poet, and the place of the artist in society. Personal and deeply perceptive, Necropolis show the early twentieth-century Russian literary scene in a new light.

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Author : Kathryn Olivarius
language : en
Publisher: Belknap Press
Release Date : 2024-04-01

Necropolis written by Kathryn Olivarius and has been published by Belknap Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-01 with History categories.

Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award Winner of James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, SHEAR Winner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History Winner of the Humanities Book of the Year Award, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities “A brilliant book...This transformative work is a pivotal addition to the scholarship on American slavery.” —Annette Gordon-Reed “A stunning account of ‘high-risk, high-reward’ profiteering in the yellow fever–ridden Crescent City...a world in which a deadly virus altered every aspect of a brutal social system, exacerbating savage inequalities of enslavement, race, and class.” —John Fabian Witt, author of American Contagions “Olivarius’s new perspectives on yellow fever, immunocapitalism, and the politics of acclimation...will influence a generation of scholars to come on the intersections of racism, slavery, and public health.” —The Lancet In antebellum New Orleans, at the heart of America’s slave and cotton kingdoms, epidemics of yellow fever killed as many as 150,000 people. With little understanding of the origins of the illness—and meager public health infrastructure—one’s only hope if infected was to survive, providing the lucky few with a mysterious form of immunity. Repeated epidemics bolstered New Orleans’s strict racial hierarchy by introducing another hierarchy, a form of “immunocapital,” as white survivors leveraged their immunity to pursue economic and political advancement while enslaved Blacks were relegated to the most grueling labor. The question of health—who has it, who doesn’t, and why—is always in part political. Necropolis shows how powerful nineteenth-century Orleanians constructed a society that capitalized on mortal risk and benefited from the chaos that ensued.

Necropolis

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Author : Catharine Arnold
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-10-15

Necropolis written by Catharine Arnold and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-15 with History categories.

From Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian cemeteries to the development of cremation and the current approach of metropolitan society towards death and bereavement -- including more recent trends to displays of collective grief and the cult of mourning, such as that surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales -- NECROPOLIS: LONDON AND ITS DEAD offers a vivid historical narrative of this great city's attitude to going the way of all flesh. As layer upon layer of London soil reveals burials from pre-historic and medieval times, the city is revealed as one giant grave, filled with the remains of previous eras -- pagan, Roman, medieval, Victorian. This fascinating blend of archaeology, architecture and anecdote includes such phenomena as the rise of the undertaking trade and the pageantry of state funerals; public executions and bodysnatching. Ghoulishly entertaining and full of fascinating nuggets of information, Necropolis leaves no headstone unturned in its exploration of our changing attitudes to the deceased among us. Both anecdotal history and cultural commentary, Necropolis will take its place alongside classics of the city such as Peter Ackroyd's LONDON.

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Author : Santiago Gamboa
language : en
Publisher: Europa Editions
Release Date : 2012-06-26

Necropolis written by Santiago Gamboa and has been published by Europa Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-26 with Fiction categories.

An author visiting Jerusalem is pulled into a stranger’s mysterious death in this gripping, moving novel by one of Colombia’s major literary voices. Winner of the La Otra Orilla Literary Award Upon recovering from a prolonged illness, an author is invited to a literary gathering in Jerusalem that turns out to be a most unusual affair. In the conference rooms of a luxury hotel, as war rages outside, he listens to a series of extraordinary life stories: the saga of a chess-playing duo, the tale of an Italian porn star with a socialist agenda, the drama of a Colombian industrialist who has been waging a longstanding battle with local paramilitaries, and many more. But it is José Maturana—evangelical pastor, recovering drug addict, ex-con—with his story of redemption at the hands of a charismatic tattooed messiah from Miami, Florida, who fascinates the author more than any other. Maturana’s language is potent and vital, and his story captivating. Hours after his stirring presentation to a rapt audience, however, Maturana is found dead in his hotel room. At first it seems likely that he has taken his own life. But there are a few loose ends that don’t support the suicide hypothesis, and the author is moved by Maturana’s life story to discover the truth about his death, in a literary mystery from “one of the most interesting Latin American writers . . . his most ambitious novel yet” (La Nación). “A modern Decameron.” —La Liberté

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Author : Boris Pahor
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2020-01-23

Necropolis written by Boris Pahor and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Boris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Bergen-Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau and Natzweiler-Struthof. Twenty years later, as he visited the preserved remains of a camp, his experiences came back to him: the emaciated prisoners; the ragged, zebra-striped uniforms; the infirmary reeking of dysentery and death. Necropolis is Pahor’s stirring account of providing medical aid to prisoners in the face of the utter brutality of the camps – and coming to terms with the guilt of surviving when millions did not. It is a classic account of the Holocaust and a powerful act of remembrance.

The Necropolis Of Cyrene

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Author : James Copland Thorn
language : en
Publisher: L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
Release Date : 2005

The Necropolis Of Cyrene written by James Copland Thorn and has been published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.

Acknowledgements, Copyright and The Archives; Preface: Introduction and Architectural Terms; CHAPTER I: PREVIOUS EXPLORATIONS; CHAPTER II: ROWES NECROPOLIS STUDIES: Tomb Studies: Northern; Eastern; Southern; CHAPTER III: ROWES NECROPOLIS EXCAVATION: Tomb Studies: Rock-cut Tombs N. 83 Area; Rock-cut Tombs N. 82 Area; Rock-cut Tombs N. 81 Area; CHAPTER IV: ROCKCUT TOMB MORPHOLOGY: Rock-cut Tombs; CHAPTER V: BUILT TOMB MORPHOLOGY: Rectangular Built Tombs; Square Built Tombs; Circular Built Tombs; Sarcophagi; Furnishings; CHAPTER VI: DISCUSSION: Cyrenaica and Marmarica; Eastern Greeks; Greek Islands; Mainland Greece; Western Greeks; Conclusion; CHAPTER VII: CATALOGUE OF BURIAL ACCOUTREMENTS: Architectural Elements; Burial Furniture; Burial Monuments; Burial Practice; List of Photographic Sources; Abbreviations; Bibliography; The Catalogue of Artifacts, with its Abbreviations and Bibliography, appears separately.

Alive In Necropolis

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Author : Doug Dorst
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2008-07-17

Alive In Necropolis written by Doug Dorst and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-17 with Fiction categories.

A "dark and funny debut"(Seattle-Times) about a young police officer struggling to maintain a sense of reality in a town where the dead outnumber the living. Colma, California, the "cemetery city" serving San Francisco, is the resting place of the likes of Joe DiMaggio, Wyatt Earp, and William Randolph Hearst. It is also the home of Michael Mercer, a by-the-book rookie cop struggling to settle comfortably into adult life. Instead, he becomes obsessed with the mysterious fate of his predecessor, Sergeant Wes Featherstone, who spent his last years policing the dead as well as the living. As Mercer attempts to navigate the drama of his own daily life, his own grip on reality starts to slip-either that, or Colma's more famous residents are not resting in peace as they should be.

Mural Decoration In The Theban Necropolis

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Author : Betsy M. Bryan
language : en
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Release Date : 2023-04-10

Mural Decoration In The Theban Necropolis written by Betsy M. Bryan and has been published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-10 with Art categories.

The tombs and mortuary temples of Thebes have proved an enduring topic of interest thanks to a quickly expanding corpus of field materials and a series of conferences devoted to the subject. This volume, the fourth in a series of occasional proceedings from the ongoing Theban Workshop, presents new research on wall decoration in the Theban necropolis. Its thirteen essays, by an international array of leading scholars, attest to the wide and varied scope of the theme.

Tombs Of The South Asasif Necropolis

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Author : Elena Pischikova
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014

Tombs Of The South Asasif Necropolis written by Elena Pischikova and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Art categories.

Thebes (Egypt : Extinct city); history.

Extramural Sepulture Synopsis Of The London Necropolis And National Mausoleum At Woking Etc

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Author : Sir Richard BROUN
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1851

Extramural Sepulture Synopsis Of The London Necropolis And National Mausoleum At Woking Etc written by Sir Richard BROUN and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1851 with categories.