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Over Her Dead Body
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Author : Elisabeth Bronfen
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1992
Over Her Dead Body written by Elisabeth Bronfen and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Family & Relationships categories.
In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating detail by Elisabeth Bronfen. Her examples range from Carmen to Little Nell, from Wuthering Heights to Vertigo, from Snow White to Frankenstein. The text is richly illustrated throughout with thirty-seven paintings and photographs. The argument that this book presents is that narrative and visual representations of death can be read as symptoms of our culture and because the feminine body is culturally constructed as the superlative site of "other" and "not me", culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.
Over Our Dead Bodies
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Author : Chapman, Simon
language : en
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-06
Over Our Dead Bodies written by Chapman, Simon and has been published by Sydney University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-06 with Political Science categories.
The Port Arthur massacre on 28 April 1996, when 35 people were shot dead by Martin Bryant, transformed Australia’s gun control debate. Public outrage drove politicians from all sides of politics to embrace gun control. Non-violent ‘people power’ galvanised government resolve to outlaw semi-automatic weapons, register all guns, and tighten gun ownership laws. Simon Chapman’s book gives an insider’s view of the struggle for gun control, highlighting the public discourse between shooters determined to preserve the right for civilians to bear military-style weapons, and activists dedicated to getting Australia ‘off the American path’ of gun violence. Law reform is not inevitable. It requires the planned, strategic use of media and advocacy to convert anger into action. The story of the campaign for gun control is a practical guide to achieving humane social change for activists everywhere.
Over My Dead Body William Warwick Novels
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Author : Jeffrey Archer
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2021-10-12
Over My Dead Body William Warwick Novels written by Jeffrey Archer and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with Fiction categories.
An unputdownable story of murder, revenge and betrayal from international number one bestseller Jeffrey Archer.
Over Their Dead Bodies
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Author : Thomas Clifford Mann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Over Their Dead Bodies written by Thomas Clifford Mann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Epitaphs categories.
Over Their Dead Bodies
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Author : Thomas Clifford Mann
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Release Date : 1962
Over Their Dead Bodies written by Thomas Clifford Mann and has been published by Penguin Adult Hc/Tr this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Fiction categories.
Over Their Dead Bodies
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Over Their Dead Bodies written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Women categories.
"Some time ago, browsing through old photographs in a flea market, two group portraits caught my eye. Of the eight women in the first photo, six appeared in the other photo as well. I recognized them from their faces not their dresses, which were different. No clue as to which photo was shot first. On the reverse both bore the same studio imprint, a photographer from the First World War. I asked myself the reason why there were eight in the one photo and only six in the other. What happened to the missing two? Did they quarrel, lose touch with each other, move to another town or simply die young?" --Page 53.
Over Our Dead Bodies
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Author : Kenneth McKenzie
language : en
Publisher: Citadel
Release Date : 2014-06-01
Over Our Dead Bodies written by Kenneth McKenzie and has been published by Citadel this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Discover a more lighthearted side of the funeral industry in this collection of real-life stories from the authors of Mortuary Confidential. Not knowing what to do, I sat on the church steps and waited. As the gravity of my failure began to well up in me, I began to cry . . . I Had Lost The Hearse! Funerals and the all the things that accompany them are traditionally somber, contemplative events in which the bereaved look to their undertaker to guide them through that most difficult of times. Of course, sometimes tradition gets thrown under the bus. From a dysfunctional family who turn their mother’s wake into a full-blown riot, to funeral crashers looking for free meals, to a horse-drawn hearse taking the dearly departed for the ride of their afterlife, these accounts from actual undertakers will have you laughing, thinking, and gasping in disbelief. A literal graveyard of wild coincidences, slapstick humor, and touching moments, Over Our Dead Bodies explores the lighter side of the dead, the living, and the lone undertaker who must make it all go as planned—even if it doesn’t. Praise for Mortuary Confidential “Outrageous funeral stories, dipped in beauty and morbid humor.” —Caleb Wilde, author of Confessions of a Funeral Director “Curious, wildly honest stories that need to be told, but just not at the dinner table.” —Dana Kollmann, author of Never Suck a Dead Man’s Hand “As unpredictable and lively as a bunch of drunks at a New Orleans funeral.” —Joe R. Lansdale, author of Moon Lake “Sick, funny, and brilliant! I love this book.” —Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of They Bite! And Rot & Ruin “These true mortuary tales are poignant—and suddenly, gaspi
A Traffic Of Dead Bodies
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Author : Michael Sappol
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-05
A Traffic Of Dead Bodies written by Michael Sappol and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with History categories.
A Traffic of Dead Bodies enters the sphere of bodysnatching medical students, dissection-room pranks, and anatomical fantasy. It shows how nineteenth-century American physicians used anatomy to develop a vital professional identity, while claiming authority over the living and the dead. It also introduces the middle-class women and men, working people, unorthodox healers, cultural radicals, entrepreneurs, and health reformers who resisted and exploited anatomy to articulate their own social identities and visions. The nineteenth century saw the rise of the American medical profession: a proliferation of practitioners, journals, organizations, sects, and schools. Anatomy lay at the heart of the medical curriculum, allowing American medicine to invest itself with the authority of European science. Anatomists crossed the boundary between life and death, cut into the body, reduced it to its parts, framed it with moral commentary, and represented it theatrically, visually, and textually. Only initiates of the dissecting room could claim the privileged healing status that came with direct knowledge of the body. But anatomy depended on confiscation of the dead--mainly the plundered bodies of African Americans, immigrants, Native Americans, and the poor. As black markets in cadavers flourished, so did a cultural obsession with anatomy, an obsession that gave rise to clashes over the legal, social, and moral status of the dead. Ministers praised or denounced anatomy from the pulpit; rioters sacked medical schools; and legislatures passed or repealed laws permitting medical schools to take the bodies of the destitute. Dissection narratives and representations of the anatomical body circulated in new places: schools, dime museums, popular lectures, minstrel shows, and sensationalist novels. Michael Sappol resurrects this world of graverobbers and anatomical healers, discerning new ligatures among race and gender relations, funerary practices, the formation of the middle-class, and medical professionalization. In the process, he offers an engrossing and surprisingly rich cultural history of nineteenth-century America.
Over Their Dead Bodies
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Author : Annabel Deering
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Over Their Dead Bodies written by Annabel Deering and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Death To Dust
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Author : Kenneth V. Iserson
language : en
Publisher: Gale Group Incorporated
Release Date : 2001
Death To Dust written by Kenneth V. Iserson and has been published by Gale Group Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Family & Relationships categories.
In our culture, we rarely speak about death -- partly because it is seen as a sort of pornography, shrouded in indecency and immersed in taboos; and partly because we know so little about it. Yet nearly everyone at some point has questions about what happens after death. At long last, here is a book to answer many of those questions: What physical changes occur to a dead body?
