Author: Forest Lawn Memorial-Park Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Art Guide of Forest Lawn
Author: Forest Lawn Memorial-Park Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Art Guide of Forrest Lawn
Author: Forrest Lawn Memorial-Park Association, inc., Glendale, Calif
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Category : Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Publisher:
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Category : Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Corpse Encounters
Author: Jacqueline Elam
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498543944
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This book sustains a critical glance at the ways in which we attend to the corpse, tracing a trajectory from encounter toward considering options for disposal: veneered mortuary internment, green burial and its attendant rot, cremation and alkaline hydrolysis, donation and display, and ecological burial. Through tracing the possible futures of the dead that haunt the living, through both the stories that we tell and physical manifestations following the end of life, we expose the workings of aesthetics that shape corpses, as well as the ways in which corpses spill over, resisting aestheticization. This book creates a space for ritualized practices surrounding death: corpse disposal; corpse aesthetics that shape both practices attendant upon and representations of the corpse; and literary, figural, and cultural representations that deploy these practices to tell a story about dead bodies—about their separation from the living, about their disposability, and ultimately about the living who survive the dead, if only for a while. There is an aesthetics of erasure persistently at work on the dead body. It must be quickly hidden from sight to shield us from the certain trauma of our own demise, or so the unspoken argument goes. Experts—scientists, forensic specialists, death-care professionals, and law enforcement—are the only ones qualified to view the dead for any extended period of time. The rest of us, with only brief doses, inoculate ourselves from the materiality of death in complex and highly ritualized ceremonies. Beyond participating in the project of restoring our sense of finitude, we try to make sense of the untouchable, unviewable, haunting, and taboo presence of the corpse itself.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498543944
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This book sustains a critical glance at the ways in which we attend to the corpse, tracing a trajectory from encounter toward considering options for disposal: veneered mortuary internment, green burial and its attendant rot, cremation and alkaline hydrolysis, donation and display, and ecological burial. Through tracing the possible futures of the dead that haunt the living, through both the stories that we tell and physical manifestations following the end of life, we expose the workings of aesthetics that shape corpses, as well as the ways in which corpses spill over, resisting aestheticization. This book creates a space for ritualized practices surrounding death: corpse disposal; corpse aesthetics that shape both practices attendant upon and representations of the corpse; and literary, figural, and cultural representations that deploy these practices to tell a story about dead bodies—about their separation from the living, about their disposability, and ultimately about the living who survive the dead, if only for a while. There is an aesthetics of erasure persistently at work on the dead body. It must be quickly hidden from sight to shield us from the certain trauma of our own demise, or so the unspoken argument goes. Experts—scientists, forensic specialists, death-care professionals, and law enforcement—are the only ones qualified to view the dead for any extended period of time. The rest of us, with only brief doses, inoculate ourselves from the materiality of death in complex and highly ritualized ceremonies. Beyond participating in the project of restoring our sense of finitude, we try to make sense of the untouchable, unviewable, haunting, and taboo presence of the corpse itself.
Pictorial Forest Lawn
Author: Forest Lawn Memorial-Park Association, inc., Glendale, Calif
Publisher:
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Category : Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Publisher:
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Category : Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Catalog of Copyright Entries
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Mortuary Science
Author: John Szabo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810845873
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Szabo presents a thorough bibliographical examination of the funeral industry and related subjects. Most citations are annotated, with special notes on editions and reprints.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810845873
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Szabo presents a thorough bibliographical examination of the funeral industry and related subjects. Most citations are annotated, with special notes on editions and reprints.
The Vocation of Evelyn Waugh
Author: D. Marcel DeCoste
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317012526
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Arguing against the critical commonplace that Evelyn Waugh’s post-war fiction represents a decline in his powers as a writer, D. Marcel DeCoste offers detailed analyses of Waugh's major works from Brideshead Revisited to Unconditional Surrender. Rather than representing an ill-advised departure from his true calling as an iconoclastic satirist, DeCoste suggests, these novels form a cohesive, artful whole precisely as they explore the extent to which the writer’s and the Catholic’s vocations can coincide. For all their generic and stylistic diversity, these novels pursue a new, sustained exploration of Waugh’s art and faith both. As DeCoste shows, Waugh offers in his later works an under-remarked meditation on the dangers of a too-avid devotion to art in the context of modern secularism, forging in the second half of his career a literary achievement that both narrates and enacts a contrary, and Catholic, literary vocation.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317012526
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Arguing against the critical commonplace that Evelyn Waugh’s post-war fiction represents a decline in his powers as a writer, D. Marcel DeCoste offers detailed analyses of Waugh's major works from Brideshead Revisited to Unconditional Surrender. Rather than representing an ill-advised departure from his true calling as an iconoclastic satirist, DeCoste suggests, these novels form a cohesive, artful whole precisely as they explore the extent to which the writer’s and the Catholic’s vocations can coincide. For all their generic and stylistic diversity, these novels pursue a new, sustained exploration of Waugh’s art and faith both. As DeCoste shows, Waugh offers in his later works an under-remarked meditation on the dangers of a too-avid devotion to art in the context of modern secularism, forging in the second half of his career a literary achievement that both narrates and enacts a contrary, and Catholic, literary vocation.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [B] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Publisher:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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