The Dominion of the Dead

The Dominion of the Dead
Title The Dominion of the Dead PDF eBook
Author Robert Pogue Harrison
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 224
Release 2010-04-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0226317927

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How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living—the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us. This elegantly conceived work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the lands where we build our present and imagine our future. As long as the dead are interred in graves and tombs, they never truly depart from this world, but remain, if only symbolically, among the living. Spanning a broad range of examples, from the graves of our first human ancestors to the empty tomb of the Gospels to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Harrison also considers the authority of predecessors in both modern and premodern societies. Through inspired readings of major writers and thinkers such as Vico, Virgil, Dante, Pater, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Rilke, he argues that the buried dead form an essential foundation where future generations can retrieve their past, while burial grounds provide an important bedrock where past generations can preserve their legacy for the unborn. The Dominion of the Dead is a profound meditation on how the thought of death shapes the communion of the living. A work of enormous scope, intellect, and imagination, this book will speak to all who have suffered grief and loss.

Domain of the Dead

Domain of the Dead
Title Domain of the Dead PDF eBook
Author Iain McKinnon
Publisher Permuted Press+ORM
Pages 226
Release 2009-11-23
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1934861499

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A group of strangers battle their way through a zombie hoard to reach a chance at freedom in this post-apocalyptic horror series opener. The world is dead, devoured by a plague of reanimated corpses. In a crumbling city Sarah, Nathan, and a band of survivors barricade themselves inside a warehouse surrounded by a sea of shambling putrefaction. Days in seclusion blur by, and their food is nearly gone. The group is faced with two possible deaths: creeping starvation, or the undead outside the warehouse. As Sarah stands on the edge of the warehouse roof preparing to step out into oblivion, she spots a glimmer of hope. In the distance a helicopter approaches the city...but is it the salvation the survivors have been waiting for? And do they dare attempt to fight their way through the mass of infected dead to reach it? Praise for Domain of the Dead “Surprised me. . . . A quick, violent, and exciting adventure.” —David Moody, author of Hater

The Book of the Dead

The Book of the Dead
Title The Book of the Dead PDF eBook
Author Muriel Rukeyser
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2018
Genre History
ISBN 9781946684219

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Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.

The Dance of Death

The Dance of Death
Title The Dance of Death PDF eBook
Author Hans Holbein
Publisher
Pages 132
Release 1892
Genre
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The Prophet

The Prophet
Title The Prophet PDF eBook
Author Kahlil Gibran
Publisher David De Angelis
Pages 63
Release 2019-01-25
Genre Fiction
ISBN 8832502062

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Kahlil Gibran considered The Prophet his greatest achievement. He said: "I think I've never been without The Prophet since I first conceived it in Mount Lebanon. It seems to have been a part of me....I kept the manuscript four years before I delivered it over to my publisher, because I wanted to be sure, I wanted to be very sure, that every word of it was the very best I had to offer." The Chicago Post said of The Prophet: "Cadenced and vibrant with feeling, the words of Kahlil Gibran bring to one's ears the majestic rhythm of Ecclesiastes....If there is a man or woman who can read this book without a quiet acceptance of a great man's philosophy and a singing in the heart as of music born within, that man or woman is indeed dead to life and truth."

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Amusing Ourselves to Death
Title Amusing Ourselves to Death PDF eBook
Author Neil Postman
Publisher Vintage
Pages 200
Release 1986
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN

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Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.

Death Comes for the Archbishop (大主教之死)

Death Comes for the Archbishop (大主教之死)
Title Death Comes for the Archbishop (大主教之死) PDF eBook
Author Willa Cather
Publisher Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Pages 1141
Release 2011-10-15
Genre Foreign Language Study
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