The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body / / Laura Wittman.
At the end of the First World War, countries across Europe participated in an unprecedented ritual in which a single, anonymous body was buried to symbolize the overwhelming trauma of the battlefields. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier explores the creation and reception of this symbolic national buri...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Anonymity and Sacrifice
- Introduction to Part I: The Return of the Dead
- 1. A Unanimous Idea
- 2. Identification and Chorality
- 3. Sacrifice and the Non finito
- Part II: Embodiment and Spectacle
- Introduction to Part II: The Undead Body, the Photographic Image, and the Religious Icon
- 4. Embodiment and Imbestiamento
- 5. Mutilation and Spectacle
- 6. Mourning Transcendence and Re-enchanting the Flesh
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index