...Peter Brooks In France, debate on the death penalty runs from the French Revolution until abolition in 1981. One of the more remarkable contributions to the debate is the novel by Victor Hugo, Le dernier jour d'un condamné [ The Last Day of a Man Sentenced to Death ], first published in 1829...

... body for a homely death. Arguably this is consistent with related mourning rituals that rely on embodied contact between the living and the dead such as the practice of wearing a lock of hair from a child or loved one. We document some contemporary practices that reconstitute the dead in keepsake form...

.... That the Jewish Holocaust looms large over these theorizations and that the graphemic (both inscribed and visual) presides over these discourses on “remains” is undeniable, but these animadversions also open the door to other kinds of unmoorings and unravelings. This specter of spectacular death that haunts our...

... Press 2011 Fiona Paisley Death Scene Protester: An Aboriginal Rights Activist in 1920s London “ This is all that is left of my people.” So Austra- lian Aboriginal protester and sometime toy seller...

...Maria Tumarkin This essay explores the death of the seventeen-year-old Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, the first woman during World War II to be named a Hero of the Soviet Union, as one of the foundational narratives of Soviet necropedagogy. Far from claiming the Soviet case study as historically singular...

...Bruce Buchan This paper explores the figurative significance of Niccolò Machiavelli's lurid account in The Prince of the death scene of Remirro de Orco in Cesena in 1502. This death scene represents a fundamental challenge to the ancient metaphor of the body politic whose health consisted...

...Margaret Gibson This essay examines the expansion of death and grief from private experience and spaces, into public spheres via a range of media events and communication technologies. This shift is increasingly acknowledged and documented in death studies and to some extent in media research...

.... The film's final sequence of live footage, some of which would have appeared on most of our television screens across the world, makes of those passing seconds a death scene. As a “death scene” we see again but really for the first time the horror and the miracle of survival. The preceding animation with its...

...: The Fictions of Fictitious Capital, and the Financialization of Industry .” Critique 38 , no. 3 : 419 – 44 . AGAINST the DAY Andrew Ross Till Death Do Us Part: The Marriage of Debt and Growth With all the talk of defaults, debt deflation, repayment resistance, and creditors being...

...Ben Fawcett About one-third of the global human population does not have access to an effective toilet. As a result, disease-carrying feces contaminate the human environment causing more than seven hundred thousand child deaths each year from diarrhea, poor child development as a result of worm...

...David Lee Miller Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 David Lee Miller The Death of the Modern: Gender and Desire in Marlowe s Hero and Leander . . . simulations are undertaken in full awareness of the absence of the life they contrive to repre­ sent, and hence they may skillfully...

...Clarence Poe Copyright © 1919 by Duke University Press 1919 Volume XVIII JANUARY, 1919 Number 1 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Tercentenary of Sir Walter Raleigh s Death Clarence Poe Editor of "The Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, N. C. For more than a year now, sons of the two great...

...Thornton S. Graves Copyright © 1922 by Duke University Press 1922 The Comedy of Stage Death Thornton S. Graves University of North Carolina. That stage deaths are funny no observant playgoer will deny. Who has not laughed to see some realist dive into a coal-scuttle on being hit by a high...

...Charles Kassel Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 Volume XXIII OCTOBER Number 4 The South Atlantic Quarterly Recent Death-Orgies: A Study of Capital Punishment. Charles Kassel Fort Worth, Texas The epidemic of executions in the South, with five negroes at Huntsville, Texas...

...Daniel Bedinger Lucas Copyright © 1917 by Duke University Press 1917 On the Death of Stonewall Jackson Daniel Bedinger Lucas Author of "The Land Where We Were Dreaming [The present paper is the second part of a striking eulogy of Jackson which was written by Judge Daniel Bedinger Lucas about...

...Peter E. Firchow Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 The Death of the German Cousin: The Great War and Changes in British Literary Views of Germany Peter E. Firchow From the distance of over two-thirds of a century it is no longer easy to grasp the complex of explosive emotions...

...Francesco Brancaccio; Carlo Vercellone The South Atlantic Quarterly 118:4, October 2019 doi 10.1215/00382876-7825551 © 2019 Duke University Press Francesco Brancaccio and Carlo Vercellone Birth, Death, and Resurrection of the Issue of the Common: A Historical and Theoretical Perspective The common...

... and the Italian government’s attacks against humanitarian organizations. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 migration Mediterranean Sea humanitarian action A G A I N S T the D A Y Luca Casarini Death and Life at Sea One day in July 2018, like in a typical movie scene of Italian immigrants...

...Horst Ruthrof Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Horst Ruthrof Deleuze and the Body: Eluding Kafka s Little Death Sentence Gilles Deleuze has made a major contribution to the critique of conceptuality. Yet unlike Der­ rida, who treats concepts as formal and so rejects the very...

...Theodore Ropp The Death of Hitler’s Germany . By Blond Georges . Translated by Frenaye Frances . New York : Macmillan Company , 1954 . Pp. vii , 302 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book Reviews 439 in the War of 1812 and for a few terms...