...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...Charles Reagan Wilson Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 The Death of Bear Bryant: Myth and Ritual in the Modern South Charles Reagan Wilson Legend has it that Paul Bear Bryant knew he would die if he quit coaching. No folklore has suggested that he predicted the immense scope...

...Patrick Scott Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 James Hilton s Goodbye, Mr. Chips and the Strange Death of Liberal England Patrick Scott Everyone knows the name and characteristics of James Hilton s elderly schoolmaster Mr. Chips. Hilton is one of the very few British writers...

...Walter Nugent America in the Gilded Age: From the Death of Lincoln to the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt . By Cashman Sean Dennis . New York & London : New York University Press , 1984 . Pp. x , 370 . $35.00 cloth, $13.50 paper. Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985...

...Laura Barge Life and Death in Beckett s Four Stories Laura Barge Samuel Beckett has said in an interview with Israel Shenker that all of his best work was written between 1946 and 1950.1 During 1945 he had returned to France from a brief visit to Ireland to see his mother and brother, had served...

...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...

...Nash K. Burger Death by Melancholy: Essays on Modern Southern Fiction . By Sullivan Walter . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1972 . Pp. xi , 133 . $5.95 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Book Reviews 613 God Save This Honorable Court. By Louis...

...James Meehan Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Seed of Destruction: The Death of Thomas Wolfe James Meehan In the mid-1930 s three knights of American literature Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe rode forth in quest of what seemed then a very important Holy...