Lost Bodies : : Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death / / Laura E. Tanner.
"If the dying body makes us flinch and look away, struggling not to see what we have seen, the lost body disappears from cultural view, buried along with the sensory traces of its corporeal presence."—from the IntroductionAmerican popular culture conducts a passionate love affair with the...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 12 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE: THE DYING BODY
- 1. TERMINAL ILLNESS AND THE GAZE
- 2. HAUNTED IMAGES
- 3. THE BODY IN THE WAITING ROOM
- PART TWO: THE BODY OF GRIEF
- 4. THE CONTOURS OF GRIEF AND THE LIMITS OF THE IMAGE
- 5. TEACHING THE BODY TO TALK
- 6. OBJECTS OF GRIEF
- POSTSCRIPT: LAYING THE BODY TO REST
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index