Death, the Dead and Popular Culture 1787430545, 9781787430549

Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture 3031407326, 9783031407321

This book responds to a growing interest in death, dying and the dead within and beyond the field of death studies. The

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Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture 3031407326, 9783031407321

This book responds to a growing interest in death, dying and the dead within and beyond the field of death studies. The

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The wedding of the dead: ritual, poetics, and popular culture in Transylvania 9780520060012, 9780520069640

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Transgressing Death in Japanese Popular Culture [1st ed.] 9783030508791, 9783030508807

This book focuses on the theme of the transgression of life and death boundaries through its representation in Japanese

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Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity 9780822380382

Through a series of literary and cultural readings, argues that African-Americans have a special relation to death arisi

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Over her dead body: Death, femininity and the aesthetic 9781526125637

The argument that this book presents is that narrative and visual representations of death can be read as symptoms of ou

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Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death 9780520926714

Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but on

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Culture and the Death of God 9780300206548

How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker a

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The Wedding of the Dead: Ritual, Poetics, and Popular Culture in Transylvania [Reprint 2019 ed.] 9780520318151

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s missio

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The Culture of Death 9781474215671

Western culture has always been obsessed with death, but now death has taken on a new, anonymous form. The 20th Century

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