Notes On The Death Of Culture
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Notes On The Death Of Culture
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Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2015-08-11
Notes On The Death Of Culture written by Mario Vargas Llosa and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-11 with Social Science categories.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual life In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation—penned by none other than Mario Vargas Llosa, who is not only one of our finest novelists but one of the keenest social critics at work today. Taking his cues from T. S. Eliot—whose essay "Notes Toward a Definition of Culture" is a touchstone precisely because the culture Eliot aimed to describe has since vanished—Vargas Llosa traces a decline whose ill effects have only just begun to be felt. He mourns, in particular, the figure of the intellectual: for most of the twentieth century, men and women of letters drove political, aesthetic, and moral conversations; today they have all but disappeared from public debate. But Vargas Llosa stubbornly refuses to fade into the background. He is not content to merely sign a petition; he will not bite his tongue. A necessary gadfly, the Nobel laureate Vargas Llosa, here vividly translated by John King, provides a tough but essential critique of our time and culture.
Death Dying Culture An Interdisciplinary Interrogation
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Author : Lloyd Steffen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-01-04
Death Dying Culture An Interdisciplinary Interrogation written by Lloyd Steffen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-04 with Family & Relationships categories.
This inter- and multi-disciplinary volume examines how culture impacts care for the dying, the overall experience of dying, and ways the dead are re
Death Desire And Loss In Western Culture
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Author : Jonathan Dollimore
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-07-04
Death Desire And Loss In Western Culture written by Jonathan Dollimore and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a rich testament to our ubiquitous preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire. In these pages we find nuanced analysis that blends Plato with Shelley, Hölderlin with Foucault. Dollimore, a gifted thinker, is not content to summarize these texts from afar; instead, he weaves a thread through each to tell the magnificent story of the making of the modern individual.
The Power Of Death
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Author : Maria-José Blanco
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2014-10-01
The Power Of Death written by Maria-José Blanco and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with Social Science categories.
The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our lives. It examines the idea and experience of death from an interdisciplinary perspective, including studies of changing burial customs throughout Europe; an account of a“dying party” in the Netherlands; examinations of the fascination with violent death in crime fiction and the phenomenon of serial killer art; analyses of death and bereavement in poetry, fiction, and autobiography; and a look at audience reactions to depictions of death on screen. By studying and considering how death is thought about in the contemporary era, we might restore the natural place it has in our lives.
Death Memory And Material Culture
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Author : Elizabeth Hallam
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-05-26
Death Memory And Material Culture written by Elizabeth Hallam and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-26 with Social Science categories.
- How do the living maintain ongoing relationships with the dead in Western societies? - How have the residual belongings of the dead been used to evoke memories? - Why has the body and its material environment remained so important in memory-making? Objects, images, practices, and places remind us of the deaths of others and of our own mortality. At the time of death, embodied persons disappear from view, their relationships with others come under threat and their influence may cease. Emotionally, socially, politically, much is at stake at the time of death. In this context, memories and memory-making can be highly charged, and often provide the dead with a social presence amongst the living. Memories of the dead are a bulwark against the terror of forgetting, as well as an inescapable outcome of a life's ending. Objects in attics, gardens, museums, streets and cemeteries can tell us much about the processes of remembering. This unusual and absorbing book develops perspectives in anthropology and cultural history to reveal the importance of material objects in experiences of grief, mourning and memorializing. Far from being ‘invisible', the authors show how past generations, dead friends and lovers remain manifest - through well-worn garments, letters, photographs, flowers, residual drops of perfume, funerary sculpture. Tracing the rituals, gestures and materials that have been used to shape and preserve memories of personal loss, Hallam and Hockey show how material culture provides the deceased with a powerful presence within the here and now.
The Celebration Of Death In Contemporary Culture
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Author : Dina Khapaeva
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2017-03-06
The Celebration Of Death In Contemporary Culture written by Dina Khapaeva and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race
Notes On Grief
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Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2021-05-11
Notes On Grief written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father: “With raw eloquence, Notes on Grief … captures the bewildering messiness of loss in a society that requires serenity, when you’d rather just scream. Grief is impolite ... Adichie’s words put welcome, authentic voice to this most universal of emotions, which is also one of the most universally avoided” (The Washington Post). Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father’s death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page—and never without touches of rich, honest humor—Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father’s death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he’d stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book—a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. Notes on Grief is a book for this moment—a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever—and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.
Culture And The Death Of God
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Author : Terry Eagleton
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-25
Culture And The Death Of God written by Terry Eagleton and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-25 with Religion categories.
Offers new observations on the persistence of God in modern times, and considers how the war on terror and a post-9/11 society has impacted atheism.
Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture
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Author : T. S. Eliot
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2014-03-25
Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture written by T. S. Eliot and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
This critique of modern society argues that culture must be organic, and cannot be planned or imposed. The word culture has been widely and erroneously employed in political, educational, and journalistic contexts. In helping to define a word so greatly misused, T. S. Eliot contradicts many of our popular assumptions about culture, reminding us that it is not the possession of any one class but of a whole society—and yet its preservation may depend on the continuance of a class system, and that a “classless” society may be a society in which culture has ceased to exist. Surveying the post–World War II world, Eliot finds evidence of decay in cultural standards in every department of human activity, and expects the phenomenon to continue. He suggests that culture and religion have a common root—and if one decays, the other may die too. In observing the superpowers of his day and the course of recent history, he reminds us that “the Russians have been the first modern people to practise the political direction of culture consciously, and to attack at every point the culture of any people whom they wish to dominate.” The appendix includes Eliot’s broadcasts to Europe, ending with a plea to preserve the legacy of Greece, Rome, and Israel, and Europe’s legacy throughout the last two thousand years. “Behind the urbanity, the modesty, the mere good manners of Mr. Eliot’s exposition, one cannot mistake the force and significance of what he has to say, or ignore that it constitutes a fundamental attack on most of our assumptions on the subject.” —The Spectator
Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture
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Author : Thomas Stearns Eliot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture written by Thomas Stearns Eliot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Culture categories.