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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Holst-Warhaft, Gail, 1941- Cue for passion. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000 (OCoLC)606321680 Online version: Holst-Warhaft, Gail, 1941- Cue for passion. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000 (OCoLC)606531492 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gail Holst-Warhaft |
ISBN: | 0674002245 9780674002241 |
OCLC Number: | 43333637 |
Description: | 228 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: The Theater of Mourning -- 1. Tears -- 2. Laughter -- 3. Bones -- 4. Disappearance -- 5. Plague -- 6. Memorials. |
Responsibility: | Gail Holst-Warhaft. |
Abstract:
Having set aside age-old ways of mourning, how do people in the modern world cope with tragic loss? Using traditional mourning rituals as an instructive touchstone, Gail Holst-Warhaft explores the ways sorrow is managed and how mourning can be manipulated for social and political ends.
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The meaning of grief, its public expression and the ways in which it has been manipulated for political effect, is the subject of this intriguing book. The strength of The Cue for Passion lies in the range of texts Gail Holst-Warhaft examines and the number of contexts she explores in order to consider the place of grief in Western society. -- Joy Damousi Melbourne Age 20001127 Read more...
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