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Symbolic loss : the ambiguity of mourning and memory at century's end / edited by Peter Homans.

Contributor(s): Homans, Peter
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.): Publisher: Charlottesville, Va. : University Press of Virginia, 2000Description: x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 081391986X (pbk. : alk. paper); 0813919851 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Mourning customs | Funeral rites and ceremonies | BereavementDDC classification: 393/.9 LOC classification: GT3390 | .S85 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Fitzgerald, Kerouac, and the puzzle of inherited mourning / Mitchell Breitwieser -- Live burial and its discontents: mourning becomes melancholia in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents / Julia Stern -- "My Lord, what a morning": the "sorrow songs" in Harlem Renaissance thought / Paul A. Anderson -- Window or mirror: the Vietnam veterans memorial and the ambiguity of remembrance / Levi Smith -- Against redemption: the arts of countermemory in Germany today / James E. Young -- Of death and destiny: the Ariès-Vovelle debate about the history of mourning / Patrick H. Hutton -- Mourning, mass death, and the gray zone: the ethnic Germans of Eastern Europe and the second world war / Doris L. Bergen -- The most intimate of creations: symptoms as memorials to one's lonely suffering / Peter Shabad -- Stalin's double death: memory and mourning among French Communist party activists / Marie-Claire Lavabre -- Loss and mourning in the life and thought of Max Weber: toward a theory of symbolic loss / Peter Homans.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West GT3390 .S85 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902336672

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fitzgerald, Kerouac, and the puzzle of inherited mourning / Mitchell Breitwieser -- Live burial and its discontents: mourning becomes melancholia in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents / Julia Stern -- "My Lord, what a morning": the "sorrow songs" in Harlem Renaissance thought / Paul A. Anderson -- Window or mirror: the Vietnam veterans memorial and the ambiguity of remembrance / Levi Smith -- Against redemption: the arts of countermemory in Germany today / James E. Young -- Of death and destiny: the Ariès-Vovelle debate about the history of mourning / Patrick H. Hutton -- Mourning, mass death, and the gray zone: the ethnic Germans of Eastern Europe and the second world war / Doris L. Bergen -- The most intimate of creations: symptoms as memorials to one's lonely suffering / Peter Shabad -- Stalin's double death: memory and mourning among French Communist party activists / Marie-Claire Lavabre -- Loss and mourning in the life and thought of Max Weber: toward a theory of symbolic loss / Peter Homans.

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