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    Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition (2014)
    New York, NY : [s.n.]
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    ISBN: 9781782382355
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    Pages: 230 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: General Cultural Studies
    Abstract: Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as depression sufficient to lead a person to suicide. In a word, despite its statistical regularity, suicide is unpredictable on the individual level. The main argument emerging from this collection is that suicide should not be understood as a separate realm of pathological behavior but as a form of human action. As such it is always dependent on the decision that the individual makes in a cultural, ethical and socio-economic context, but the context never completely determines the decision. This book also argues that cultural narratives concerning suicide have a problematic double function: in addition to enabling the community to make sense of self-inflicted death, they also constitute a blueprint depicting suicide as a solution to common human problems.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures and Tables -- -- Introduction: Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition -- Marja-Liisa Honkasalo and Miira Tuominen -- -- PART I: SUICIDE: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES -- -- Chapter 1. The Construction of the Suicidal Self in Phenomenological Psychology -- Charles J-H Macdonald and Jean Naudin -- -- Chapter 2. When it is Worth the Trouble to Die: The Cultural Valuation of Suicide -- María Cátedra -- -- PART II: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL APPROACHES TO SUICIDE -- -- Chapter 3. "Tell Him to Follow Me as Quickly as Possible" – Plato's Phaedo (60c–63c) on Self-Killing -- Miira Tuominen -- -- Chapter 4. Free Philosophers and Tragic Women – Stoic Perspectives on Suicide -- Malin Grahn -- -- Chapter 5. Moral Philosophical Arguments against Suicide in the Middle Ages -- Virpi Mäkinen -- -- PART III: MORALITY, POLITICS, AND VIOLENCE - SUICIDE IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES -- -- Chapter 6. "She Kissed Death with a Smile": The Politics and Moralities of the Female Suicide Bomber -- Susanne Dahlgren -- -- Chapter 7. "When We Stop Living, We also Stop Dying" – Men, Suicide, and Moral Agency -- Marja-Liisa Honkasalo -- -- Afterword -- Arthur Kleinman -- -- Notes on Contributors --
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    The Power of Death : Contemporary Reflections on Death in Western Society (2014)
    New York, NY : [s.n.]
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    ISBN: 9781782384342
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 272 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: General Cultural Studies
    Abstract: The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our lives. It examines the idea and experience of death from an interdisciplinary perspective, including studies of changing burial customs throughout Europe; an account of a"dying party" in the Netherlands; examinations of the fascination with violent death in crime fiction and the phenomenon of serial killer art; analyses of death and bereavement in poetry, fiction, and autobiography; and a look at audience reactions to depictions of death on screen. By studying and considering how death is thought about in the contemporary era, we might restore the natural place it has in our lives.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Ricarda Vidal and Maria-José Blanco -- PART I: DEATH IN SOCIETY -- Chapter 1. Life Extension, Immortality and the Patient Voice -- Catherine Jenkins -- Chapter 2. Beyond 'Mourning and Melancholia' -- Lynne M. Simpson -- Chapter 3. War and Requiem Compositions in the Twentieth Century -- Wolfgang Marx -- PART II: DEATH IN LITERATURE -- Chapter 4. Understanding Death/Writing Bereavement: The writer's experience -- Maria-José Blanco López de Lerma -- Chapter 5. A Way of Sorrows for the Twentieth Century: Margherita Guidacci's LaVia Crucis dell'umanità -- Eleanor David -- Chapter 6. From Self-Erasure to Self-Affirmation: Communally Acknowledged 'Good Death' in Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying -- Corina Crisu -- Chapter 7. Habeas Corpse. The Dead Body of Evidence in John Grisham's The Client -- Fiorenzo Iuliano -- Chapter 8. The Fascination with Torture and Death in Twenty-first-Century Crime Fiction -- Rebecca Shillabeer -- PART III: DEATH IN VISUAL CULTURE -- Chapter 9. The Power of Negative Creation – Why Art by Serial Killers Sells -- Ricarda Vidal -- Chapter 10. Screening the Dying Individual: Film, Mortality and the Ethics of Spectatorship -- John Horne -- Chapter 11. The Broken Body as Spectacle: Looking at Death and Injury in Sport -- Julia Banwell -- Chapter 12. Death on Display: The Ideological Function of the Mummies of the World Exhibit -- Diana York Blaine -- PART IV: CEMETERIES AND FUNERALS -- Chapter 13. The Romanian Carnival of Death and the Merry Cemetery of Săpânţa -- Marina Cap Bun -- Chapter 14. In the Dead of Night: a Nocturnal Exploration of Heterotopia in the Graveyard -- Bel Deering -- Chapter 15. Scenarios of Death in Contexts of Mobility: Guineans and Bangladeshis in Lisbon -- Clara Saraiva and José Mapril -- Chapter 16. Karaoke Death: Intertextuality in Active Euthanasia Practices -- Natasha Lushetich -- PART V: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON DEATH -- Chapter 17. Death isn't what it used to be -- Lala Isla -- Chapter 18. The Dad Project -- Briony Campbell -- Index --
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    Chiasmus and Culture (2014)
    New York, NY : [s.n.]
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    ISBN: 9780857459619
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 264 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture 6
    Keywords: General Cultural Studies
    Abstract: Anyone who has heard of chiasmus is likely to think of it as no more than a piece of rhetorical playfulness, at times challenging, though useful for supplying a memorable sententious note or for performing a pirouette of syntax and thought. Going beyond traditional rhetoric, this volume is concerned with the possibility of using the figure of chiasmus to model a broad array of phenomena, from human relations to artistic creation. In the process, it provides the first book-length study not of chiasmus, the rhetorical figure, but of chiastic thought. The contributors are concerned with chiastic inversion and its place in social interactions, cultural creation, and more generally human thought and experience.They explore from a variety of angles what the unsettling logic of chiasmus (from the Greek meaning "cross-wise"), has to tell us about the world, human relations, cultural patterns, psychology, and artistic and poetic creation.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Anthony Paul and Boris Wiseman -- -- PART I: THE PATHOS OF CHIASMUS -- -- Chapter 1. From stasis to ek-stasis: four types of chiasmus -- Anthony Paul -- -- Chapter 2. What is a Chiasmus? Or, Why the Abyss Stares Back -- Robert Hariman -- -- Chapter 3. Chiasmus and Metaphor -- Ivo Strecker -- -- PART II: EPISTEMOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON CHIASMUS -- -- Chapter 4. Chiasm in Merleau-Ponty, metaphor or concept? -- Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel -- -- Chapter 5. Chiasmi figuring difference -- Stephen Tyler -- -- Chapter 6. Forking: Rhetoric χ Rhetoric -- Phillipe-Joseph Salazar -- -- PART III: SENSUOUS EXPERIENCE MEDIATED BY CHIASMUS -- -- Chapter 7. Chiasm in suspense in psychoanalysis -- Alain Vanier -- -- Chapter 8. Quotidian Chiasmus in Montaigne -- Phillip John Usher -- -- Chapter 9. 'Travestis, Michês' and Chiasmus -- Ben Bollig -- -- PART IV: CHIASTIC STRUCTURES IN RITUAL AND MYTHO-POETIC TEXTS -- -- Chapter 10. Parallelism and Chiasmus in Ritual Oration -- Douglas Lewis -- -- Chapter 11. Chiasmus, mythical creation and H.C. Andersen's The Shadow followed by a "Response" from Lucien Scubla -- Boris Wiseman -- -- Bibliography -- Index --
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