Writing the Dead: Death and Writing Strategies in the Western Tradition Hardcover - 1998 - 1st Edition
by Armando Petrucci; Michael Sullivan (Translator)
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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.
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- Title Writing the Dead: Death and Writing Strategies in the Western Tradition
- Author Armando Petrucci; Michael Sullivan (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 184
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, California
- Date 1998-03-01
- ISBN 9780804728591 / 0804728593
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.34 x 6.25 x 0.8 in (23.72 x 15.88 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Library of Congress subjects Epitaphs, Sepulchral monuments
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97028232
- Dewey Decimal Code 929.5
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