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Author | : Maggie Vinter |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2019-05-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0823284271 |
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Last Acts argues that the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater offered playwrights, actors, and audiences important opportunities to practice arts of dying. Psychoanalytic and new historicist scholars have exhaustively documented the methods that early modern dramatic texts and performances use to memorialize the dead, at times even asserting that theater itself constitutes a form of mourning. But early modern plays also engage with devotional traditions that understand death less as an occasion for suffering or grief than as an action to be performed, well or badly. Active deaths belie narratives of helplessness and loss through which mortality is too often read and instead suggest how marginalized and constrained subjects might participate in the political, social, and economic management of life. Some early modern strategies for dying resonate with descriptions of politicized biological life in the recent work of Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito, or with ecclesiastical forms. Yet the art of dying is not solely a discipline imposed upon recalcitrant subjects. Since it offers suffering individuals a way to enact their deaths on their own terms, it discloses both political and dramatic action in their most minimal manifestations. Rather than mournfully marking what we cannot recover, the practice of dying reveals what we can do, even in death. By analyzing representations of dying in plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, alongside devotional texts and contemporary biopolitical theory, Last Acts shows how theater reflects, enables, and contests the politicization of life and death.
Author | : Chris Docker |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 822 |
Release | : 2015-05-13 |
Genre | : Euthanasia |
ISBN | : 9781512176445 |
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(Expanded edition. For previous reviews, please see http: //www.amazon.com/dp/1482594099) With 844 pages, it is the most extensive volume in print on the subject, meticulously researched and scientifically substantiated. No method of self-euthanasia can be perfect, in spite of what some claim. What this book does is give you the best evidence and advice available and backs it up with scientific references that you can check for yourself. ***104 pages on use of inert gas (nitrogen, helium).*** ***205 pages on drugs.*** ***Hundreds more pages on voluntary refusal of food and liquid*** ***the low-down on 'fringe' methods*** As well as precautions, social, legal and ethical concerns, tips and checklists, ***100 illustrations*** and 'how-to' diagrams, 7 tables and more than 1000 references. Peer-reviewed evidence and examination of alternative theories. (See the 'look-inside' feature for list of contents, or the publications page on the 'ExitEuthanasia Blog'.)
Author | : P.D. James |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 0857861077 |
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Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James
Author | : Virginia Woolf |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2017-02-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1473362962 |
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Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer. She is widely hailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century and a pioneer of stream of consciousness narration. She suffered numerous nervous breakdowns during her life primarily as a result of the deaths of family members, and it is now believed that she may have suffered from bipolar disorder. In 1941, Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse at Lewes, aged 59. The last novel written by Woolf, “Between the Acts” is set just before the onset of World War II and describes a play and all its elements performed at an rustic English Village festival. The chief portion of the book is written in verse, representing one of Woolf's most lyrical works. A must read for fans and collectors of Woolf's seminal work. Other notable works by this author include: “To the Lighthouse” (1927), “Orlando” (1928), and “A Room of One's Own” (1929). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this novel now in a brand new edition complete with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.
Author | : Bern Porter |
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Release | : 2021 |
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ISBN | : 9782957661107 |
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Author | : Alan R. Kemp |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 2015-10-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317348974 |
Download Death, Dying and Bereavement in a Changing World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This title takes a comprehensive approach, exploring the physical, social, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of death, dying, and bereavement.Through personal stories from real people, Death, Dying, and Bereavement provides readers with a context for understanding their changing encounters with such difficult concepts.
Author | : Alexander Sammartino |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2024-01-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1982196750 |
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Named a MOST ANTICIPATED book of 2024 by Nylon and The Millions Following a near-death experience, an entrepreneurial father-and-son duo wreak havoc and fend off bankruptcy in this unflinching portrayal of the absurdities of American life. “Honest, highwire, virtuosic writing that summons up the world with all its charms and hazards.” —George Saunders, author of Liberation Day • “Funny as hell...Unputdownable.” —Mary Karr, author of Lit Even though his firearms store is failing, things are looking up for David Rizzo. His son, Nick, has just recovered after a near-fatal overdose, which means one thing: Rizzo can use Nick’s resurrection to create the most compelling television commercial for a gun emporium that the world has ever seen. After all, this is America, Rizzo tells himself. Surely anything is possible. But the relationship between father and son is fragile, mired in mutual disappointment. And when the pair embarks on their scheme to avoid bankruptcy, a high stakes crash of hijinks, hope, and disaster ensues. Featuring a cast of unforgettable characters, this razor-sharp social satire lays bare both the gun and opioid crises. Fans of Don DeLillo and Stephen Markley will be thrilled by this smart, inventive debut.
Author | : Gideon Yaffe |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2012-11-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191642231 |
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Gideon Yaffe presents a ground-breaking work which demonstrates the importance of philosophy of action for the law. Many people are serving sentences not for completing crimes, but for trying to. So the law governing attempted crimes is of practical as well as theoretical importance. Questions arising in the adjudication of attempts intersect with questions in the philosophy of action, such as what intention a person must have, if any, and what a person must do, if anything, to be trying to act. Yaffe offers solutions to the difficult problems courts face in the adjudication of attempted crimes. He argues that the problems courts face admit of principled solution through reflection either on what it is to try to do something; or on what evidence is required for someone to be shown to have tried to do something; or on what sentence for an attempt is fair given the close relation between attempts and completions. The book argues that to try to do something is to be committed by one's intention to each of the components of success and to be guided by those commitments. Recognizing the implications of this simple and plausible position helps us to identify principled grounds on which the courts ought to distinguish between defendants charged with attempted crimes.
Author | : Kenneth J. Doka |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2013-02-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1135056099 |
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Living With Grief: Children, Adolescents, and Loss, (2000) edited by Kenneth J. Doka, features articles by leading educators and clinicians in the field of grief and bereavement. The chapters entitled "Voices" are the writings of children and adolescents. The book includes a comprehensive resource list of national organizations and a useful bibliography of age-appropriate literature for children and adolescents.
Author | : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron |
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Total Pages | : 1126 |
Release | : 1835 |
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