Julia Cooper
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| Title & Subtitle | Contents | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 The Last WordReviving The Dying Art of Eulogy |
In turning a critical eye toward the act of eulogy, Julia Cooper manages to perceptively, even playfully, create a new space for the bleak act of mourning. Examining fictional eulogies in The Big … | Julia Cooper | 121 | 2017 | View |
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From PrologueFrom: The Last Word |
Introduces the reader to the themes of death explored in this book. | Julia Cooper | 4 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
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From The Fairy-Tale FuneralFrom: The Last Word |
On the events of Princess Diana’s wedding and funeral. Intro to the concept of neo-liberal/ capitalist erasure of grief in favour of happiness, and the instrumentalisation of negative … | Julia Cooper | 15 | 2017 | $1.50 Add |
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From Great Men to MournFrom: The Last Word |
On the history of the eulogy being a public praising of great men, and on making the private public in demonstrations of grief: celebrity grieving, grieving on social media. This chapter … | Julia Cooper | 24 | 2017 | $2.40 Add |
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From The Futility of ProgressFrom: The Last Word |
On time and grief: quantifying time in relation to grief, moving past or beyond grief, drawing time barriers around it and ‘moving on’ or ‘moving forward’. Includes an … | Julia Cooper | 17 | 2017 | $1.70 Add |
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From A Loss For WordsFrom: The Last Word |
This chapter highlights the challenge of writing a eulogy and using the words and songs of others to express one’s own feelings of sadness. It focuses on calculating and quantifying life, … | Julia Cooper | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
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From Ordinary RuinsFrom: The Last Word |
This chapter examines the commonplace nature of death and grieving, with examples from Barthes and his Mourning Diary, Freud on the narcissim of grief, and Joan Didion on Year of Magical … | Julia Cooper | 12 | 2017 | $1.20 Add |
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From The Amateur’s ArtFrom: The Last Word |
This chapter examines repression, avoidance of grief the failing art of Eulogy. Thoughts on changing the art of the eulogy to a depressive rather than lauding form. Embracing grief, pop culture … | Julia Cooper | 18 | 2017 | $1.80 Add |
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From Works CitedFrom: The Last Word |
Summary of works cited in the text. | Julia Cooper | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
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From AcknowledgementsFrom: The Last Word |
A message of thanks from the author. | Julia Cooper | 1 | 2017 | $0.10 Add |
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From About the AuthorFrom: The Last Word |
A brief paragraph about the author. | Julia Cooper | 1 | 2017 | $0.10 Add |
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From About the Exploded SeriesFrom: The Last Word |
A brief paragraph about the series. | Julia Cooper | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
