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Author Pankratz, Anette.

Title Birth and Death in British Culture : Liminality, Power, and Performance.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (243 pages)
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Summary 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 life's 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 ...
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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Subject Popular culture -- Great Britain.
Popular culture.
Great Britain.
Cultural studies.
Sociology: death & dying.
Sociology: birth.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Viol, Claus-Ulrich.
De Waal, Ariane.
Other Form: Print version: 9781443838887
ISBN 9781443839334
1443839337
9781443838887 (hardback)
1443838888 (hardback)