دانلود کتاب The Power of Death: Contemporary Reflections on Death in Western Society

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Contents\nIllustrations\nNotes on contributors\nIntroduction\nPart I: Death in Society\n1 Life Extension, Immortality and the Patient Voice\n2 Beyond ‘mourning and melancholia’\n3 War and requiem compositions in the twentieth century\nPart II: Death in Literature\n4 Understanding Death/Writing Bereavement: The Writer’s Experience\n5 A Way of Sorrows for the Twentieth Century: Margherita Guidacci’s La Via Crucis dell’umanità\n6 From Self-Erasure to Self-Affirmation: Communally Acknowledged ‘Good Death’ in Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying\n7 Habeas Corpse: The Dead Body of Evidence in John Grisham’s The Client\n8 The Fascination with Torture and Death in Twenty-first-Century Crime Fiction\nPart III: Death in Visual Culture\n9 The Power of Negative Creation – Why Art by Serial Killers Sells\n10 Screening the Dying Individual: Film, Mortality and the Ethics of Spectatorship\n11 The Broken Body as Spectacle: Looking at Death and Injury in Sport\n12 Death on Display: The Ideological Function of the Mummies of the World Exhibit\nPart IV: Cemeteries and Funerals\n13 The Romanian Carnival of Death and the Merry Cemetery of Săpânţa\n14 In the dead of night: A Nocturnal Exploration of Heterotopia in the Graveyard\n15 Scenarios of Death in Contexts of Mobility: Guineans and Bangladeshis in Lisbon\n16 Karaoke Death: Intertextuality in Active Euthanasia Practices\nPart V: Personal Reflections on Death\n17 Death is Not What it Used to Be: A Comparison between Customs of Death in the UK and Spain. Changes in the Last Thirty-Five Years\n18 The Dad Project\nIndex