Death, Burial, and the Afterlife
Dublin Death Studies
Summary
The topics covered include the exhumation and reburial of Cardinal John Henry Newman;the funerary monument of John Donne in his shroud; the funeral of Joseph Stalin; the theme of mutilation and non-burial of the corpse in Homer’s Iliad; the individual’s encounter with death in the work of the German Philosopher Josef Pieper; the Requiem by the Irish composer Charles Villiers Stanford; the imagery of death in Giovanni Verga’s novel Mastro-don Gesualdo, and the changing attitudes toward death in the writings of Michel Foucault.
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations, Tables, Musical Examples
- Introduction
- 1 | Empty Tombs and Apparitions: A Reflection on the Theological Significance of the Exhumation of the Remains of John Henry Newman.
- 2 | John Donne, Undone, Redone: the John Donne Monument Reconsidered.
- 3 | Stalin’s Death and Afterlife.
- 4 | The Mutilation and Non-Burial of the Dead in Homer’s Iliad
- 5 | Identity and the Act of Dying: Sketching a Philosophical Perspective.
- 6 | ‘emotional rather than cerebral’? Charles Villiers Stanford’s Requiem
- 7 | Arrigo Boito and Giovanni Verga: the Body, Illness and Death in Mastro-don Gesualdo
- 8 | Death, Medicine, Literature: Foucault in 1963.
- Contributors
Acknowledgements
The editors would like to express their sincere thanks to all contributors – particularly for their patience during the editing process. Special thanks are due to Bridget Martin for her support of the editorial process, as well as to Áine Kelly Conway for her help in preparing Pádraig Conway’s essay. We are also extremely grateful to the members of the UCD research strand ‘Death, Burial, and the Afterlife’ as well as other participants in our symposia, public lectures and conferences whose interest and discursive contributions helped to develop the idea of this book and to shape its arguments and chapter structure. The UCD Seed Funding initiative contributed vital funding without which this project could not have been realised. Last, but not least, we thank Dan Farrelly, Eamonn Jordan, Lilian Chambers and everybody at Carysfort Press for the great enthusiasm and vigour which they brought to the project. They made the preparation of this volume a truly enjoyable experience.
Dublin, January 2014
Philip Cottrell & Wolfgang Marx
Illustrations
Fig. 2. 10) The Turin Shroud (detail), Cathedral, Turin. The Bridgeman Art Library / Getty Images.
Fig. 3.2) The Bodies of Lenin and Stalin in the Kremlin Mausoleum.
Fig. 7.1) Arrigo Boito, photographed in 1885. Universal Images Group / Getty Images.
Fig. 7.2) Giovanni Verga, photographed in 1900. Mondadori / Getty Images.
Tables
4.1) Post-mortem mutilation in Homer’s Iliad incorporating threats, allusions and actual occurrences.
6.1) Text distribution in the requiem settings by Verdi, Stanford and Dvořák.
Music Examples
6.1) Stanford, Requiem, Introit, begin
6.2) Verdi, Missa da Requiem, Introit, begin
6.3) Stanford, Requiem, Introit, opening ‘Requiem aeternam’ (soprano)
6.4) Stanford, Requiem, Kyrie, begin (soprano)
6.5) Stanford, Requiem, Gradual, begin (soprano)
6.6) Stanford, Requiem, Offertory, ‘Quam olim Abrahae’ theme
Details
- Pages
- CLXXXVIII, 14
- Publication Year
- 2014
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781789970456
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781789970463
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781789970470
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781789970449
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2020 (February)
- Published
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien, 2014. 14, 188 pp., 16 fig. b/w, 2 tables
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