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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"obituary"”.
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Obituary and Other Poems
A collection of poems that explore the imagined possible deaths of a father and ultimately the concepts of absence and lack through a contemplation of spaces like fields and cemeteries
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From a Record of Death to a Memory of Life: The Rise of the Biographical Obituary in The Gentleman's Magazine
… forms born in The Gentleman's Magazine is the obituary. Beginning as a sparse list of deaths appended to the back of each issue of the magazine, it came to occupy a larger role in the publication within a hundred years of its inception. My study proposes to examine the reasons for this shift, …
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A Case for Rhetorical Method: Criticism, Theory, and the Exchange of Jean Baudrillard
… and their responses: Jonathan Kandell's 2004 obituary of Jacques Derrida and Carlin Romano's 2007 obituary of Jean Baudrillard. I, first, analyze these obituaries in accordance with a conventional understanding of rhetoric as representation and, second, in accordance with each theorist's …
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To Stage a Reading: The Actor in British Modernism
… during the First World War, the authority of obituary in the literary tradition, and the potential for re-writing historical progress through the lens of community theatre. Positioned between media--theatre, poetry, and the novel--and also between opposing visions of creativity and the …
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William Grant Broughton and his early years in New South Wales
… Annual Register, which jealously tailored its obituary space to its client’s social status, threw tradition to the wind and bade Broughton farewell with a notice worthy of the cousins of royalty. At the same time the picks and shovels of labourers were to be heard for the first time since the …
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William Grant Broughton and his early years in New South Wales
… Annual Register, which jealously tailored its obituary space to its client’s social status, threw tradition to the wind and bade Broughton farewell with a notice worthy of the cousins of royalty. At the same time the picks and shovels of labourers were to be heard for the first time since the …
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Between City and Self: Reading Beirut in Mohamed Soueid’s Tango of Yearning
… the first in a trilogy titled Civil War – as an ‘obituary’ of his life prior to making this film. Hence, for him, the film is rooted in the past, yet I argue that it is a significant augury of Beirut itself as a palimpsest of urban memories sublimated by Soueid. This argument is nestled between …
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THE UNKNOWN That what I say is not what I mean
… With the destruction of the message of the obituary, the presence of the "unknown" is tested in both its personal and universal aspects. 'The Unknown - Negatives - Black Light' is a chapter that includes the most recent work. The work described in this chapter draws together multiple strands …