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Written by one of the world s leading paleographers, this book poses two fundamental questions: When did human beings begin and why have they continued to decide that a certain number of their dead had a right to a written death? What differences have existed in the practice of writing death from age to age and culture to culture? Drawing principally on testimonials intended for public display, such as monuments, tombstones, and grave markings, as well as on scrolls, books, manuscripts, newspapers, and posters, the author reconstructs the ways Western cultures have used writing to commemorate the dead, from the tombs of ancient Egypt to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. The author argues that the relation between funereal remains and inscription is a profoundly political one. The recurring question Who merits a written death? demands a multifaceted reply, one that intersects such modes of human cultural history as the relation between the living and the dead, the control of territory, the formation and maintenance of power, the preservation of wealth, the right to individuality, and the symbolic and signifying value of written culture.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Language linguistics Palaeography (history of writing)

• Plný název: Writing the Dead
• Podnázev: Death and Writing Strategies in the Western Tradition
• Autor: Armando Petrucci
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 163
• EAN: 9780804728591
• ISBN: 0804728593
• ID: 04716576
• Nakladatelství: Stanford University Press
• Hmotnost: 512 g
• Rozměry: 237 × 160 × 23 mm
• Datum vydání: 01. March 1998

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