Birth and Death in British Culture : Liminality, Power, and Performance
ISBN: 9781443839334
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: History;

Why discuss birth and death when they lie outside discourse, confronting us Other experiences that cannot be put into words? And why look at them together when they are so much unlike each other, one the moment of fresh beginnings, joys, and the relative certainties of existence, the other the moment of lifeOCOs end, grief, and the relative uncertainties of non-existence? Because it turns out that both events, while virtually unrepresentable, have spawned a host of representations, narratives, r...


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